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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 photo shows Deacon Ralph B. Jones of the Seaview United Baptist Church delivering a speech during a 1962 community meeting held inside the church. The gathering was organized in response to the City of Halifax’s plans to demolish Africville and…

Newspaper Page Describing the Delegation led by Donald Moore.. Vol. 2 No.1

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

Statistics garnered from a survey targeted towards minorities in Canada. It is judged from levels of discrimination, discovering two of the most marginalized groups in Canada.

A newspaper article written by Patrick Nicholson for the Daily Mercury’s Ottawa Report in October 1953. Nicholson discusses the Fair Employment Practices Act, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of race (among other things) in jobs with…

Link to the full documentary: https://youtu.be/AtroR6pOHLY In this clip, drag queen Stephanie Stevens discusses her life since moving to Toronto, and needing to find her own family. She shares that her family is christian, meaning that her career and…