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This sketch is the earliest known image of a Black Loyalist, depicting a man cutting wood in the few years following the foundation of Birchtown. Many Black Loyalists had arrived in Nova Scotia expecting fruitful harvests and economic stability as a…

A modern-style map showing the commonly used routes of the Underground Railroad, stretching from southern U.S. slave states to northern free states and Canada. Red and blue lines indicate escape paths and major safe locations.

A page from the Toronto Daily Star showing a story about Marisse Scott, a young Black woman who was denied entry into a nursing school in Owen Sound because of her race. She began studying in a nursing school in Guelph instead, showing the…

news report about Marrisse Scott's enrollment

A coloured 19th-century plan of the city of Hamilton, Ontario, divided into numbered wards (I–VII). The map shows detailed street layouts, wharves, railroads, and shoreline features bordering Burlington Bay. Districts are shaded in different colours…

A modern-style map showing the commonly used routes of the Underground Railroad, stretching from southern U.S. slave states to northern free states and Canada. Red and blue lines indicate escape paths and major safe locations.

This is a photograph of St. Phillip's public health nursing class of 1945. Bernice Redmon, Canadian-born Black Registered Nurse, is in the front row, far left, the first. She’s a good example of what Black Canadian women went through in attempts to…

A photograph from a jazz performance from Ma'afu Keteca in Vancouver, British Columbia.

A photograph from a jazz performance from Ma'afu Keteca in Vancouver, British Columbia.