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Rev. England was the pastor of St. Cyprian's Mission, a church created by the Diocese of St. Albans Anglican Church in 1925.

The suggestion is that the church was created out of demands from white members not wanting Black members in their church…

Photo taken at St. Philip's African Orthodox Church in Whitney Pier. Part of a larger network of churches that came to be in New York in the 1920s, originated by George Alexander McGuire from the belief that Black Episcopalians should have their own…

A quote from John Fitch talking about the conditions of how hot it was in areas of the steel mill. These conditions describe where Black Caribbean workers were put to work for low pay at DISCO, under the racial notion that they're more equipped to…

Cape Breton Island outline

Dr. Alvinus Calder immigrated from Grenada and attended the University of Toronto before he was forced to leave the college due to the fact that his race would offend white students at the school. Calder then went to Queens University, where he got…

DISCO finished construction in 1901, making it one of the most modern steel plants in the world, and making Sydney into an important industrial city of North America. The plant was under American management and had mostly American machinery operating…

The plan clearly shows the shacks Black workers lived in, and it states, "Shacks (mostly coloured tenants)." The shacks held Black, Polish, Hungarian, Italian and Newfoundlanders. The shacks were in disgusting conditions without heat or water, and…

UNIA member meeting

Founder of the UNIA, a movement for racial uplifting in areas like industrial and educational opportunities for Black people. Even though mainly in America, it took root in Canada around 1918-1920, with Glace Bay or Montreal being the first in…

Due cards for active members of the UNIA. The UNIA in Glace Bay was a formal organization taking records of who came and when they came into the UNIA.