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This map, taken from the well known gay Toronto magazine The Body Politic in their summer 1974 issue, depicts places around the city where queer social events and activities were held. These spots were primarily frequented and dominated by white gay…

Dawn Tyler Watson is a Canadian born jazz and blues singer and 2020 Juno music award winner. She put on an amazing performance at the 2025 Festival International de Montreal de Jazz, delivering a captivating set and showing her vocal talent.…

This quote by Cheryl Foggo shows how important Cheryl's Black heritage is to her. Many writers are influenced by their own lives, and for Cheryl, it was her Black heritage and that she is a woman that has the most influence in her life. She has…

An illustration of the inside of a train car from 1887. Rows of white passengers are served food by a Black porter.

Picture of Palais Royal in Toronto, a very well known leisure spot for dancing c. 1930s for white people only. After several protests from the Black communities in the area, they desegregated in 1947. Only after 27 years of being open as a dancing…

A porter’s hat badge, made by the Pullman Company during the early twentieth century. The Pullman Company was the origin for the hiring of Black men as sleeping car porters; they began this tradition, and the CPR and CNR simply borrowed their…

A photograph taken by an unknown person in 1947. A Black sleeping car porter reads a book to a passenger, a young white boy. Sleeping car porters had to perpetuate stereotypes of Black men, that they were friendly and helpful and servile. However, by…

Japanese-Canadians marching on Parliament Hill to seek redress after wrongdoings committed against them during the Second World War.

A bill creating a more restrictive immigration policy by expanding government power to deny entry and deport immigrants.