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Roger McTair has been a veteran of the Black Canadian film industry for years. He has worked with countless other directors including Claire Prieto and Jennifer Hodge de Silva. McTairs is known to hold great respect for his work and show passion in…

This is a frame from the opening of the documentary Some Black Women (1975). This film was worked on by both Roger McTair and Claire Prieto. It is known as one of the first works in the Black Canadian Film history. This work is quite significant…

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This is Roger McTair's documentary called Journey to Justice and it was released in the year 2000. It is about six huge names in Black Canadian history and highlights their stories with segregation, discrimination, racial profiling and more. This…

Robert Walker recalling a letter written by members of the Sir George Williams Faculty in response to the Sir George Williams Affair. This letter would have been the ultimate insult to all the protestors who had just participated in the affair and…

The United States enacted the Volstead Act in 1919, successfully banning the production, distribution, and selling of alcohol. Although Canada never enacted the Prohibition, The Canada Temperance Act of 1878 gave local governments the option to ban…

This local Quebec landscape blends detail with atmosphere. Its inclusion underscores how Duncanson documented the regions he travelled through as he built a transnational artistic identity.

This landscape shows Duncanson’s interest in dramatic motions and wilderness imagery. The painting connects Black artistic production to themes of power, turbulence through the Canadian landscape.

This richly wooded scene reflects Duncanson’s engagement with Romantic depictions of nature. Its inclusion demonstrates how his work helped shape early impressions of Canadian wilderness aesthetics.

This work highlights Duncanson’s command of atmospheric marine style paintings, a genre central to nineteenth-century North American art. Its inclusion shows how Black artists engaged with concepts of mobility and distance through the maritime…