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The meeting was held in response to the July 1962 report of the development department of the City of Halifax recommending the elimination of Africville. During the meeting, Africville residents stated their opposition to the City's plans for…

This petition, signed by residents of Africvill,e aimed to have the city of Halifax install a community well. The petition shows a strong sense of community which existed in Africville, where they collectively pushed the city to provide them with…

This is a photograph of the Africville Sea-sides 1922 team that played in the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes. It highlights the pride, talent, and leadership found within Africville, and it connects strongly to the legacy of Aaron “Pa”…

This is a poster created by Emory Douglas and posted in the New York Times entitled “Afro-American Solidarity” in 1969, which depicts the image of a Black Panther (a woman part of the Black Panther social and political organization in the United…

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

This was a photo taken of Afua Cooper, who helped build queer-inclusive Black feminist circles in Toronto in the 1980s-90s. She is best known as a poet and a scholar of Black Canadian history, but she helped lay the foundation for queer safe spaces…

Ajax Records was founded in 1921 as a subsidiary of the Compo Company, Canada’s first independent record-making factory, established in Lachine by Herbert S. Berliner. Recordings were produced in both Montreal and New York, closely coordinated,…

The album cover for the album "Back Stairs of My Life" by Dianne Brooks. This album was her most widely received album, and was one of her last releases as a solo artist before becoming a backup singer for artists such as Dusty Springfield and Anne…

This law marked the first legislative attempt in British North America to restrict the institution of slavery rather than protect or enhance it. While it did not emancipate those already bound, the act forbade importation of new enslaved folks on the…