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Dr Shadd was known for being a doctor and community leader in Carrot Valley, Saskatchewan. He made the Canadian Parries his life because he cared about the people who lived there and desired for them to be able to be taken care of while living in…

This is a photograph of Pearleen Oliver, who was a Black pastor, and a Black rights activist. I will use this image and mainly talk about when Pearleen Oliver was interviewed about her campaign surrounding the inclusion of Black nurses, which serves…

Dr. Alvinus Calder immigrated from Grenada and attended the University of Toronto before he was forced to leave the college due to the fact that his race would offend white students at the school. Calder then went to Queens University, where he got…

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This is a video clip from a drag performance held at Chaps, a Toronto nightclub, presumably in the mid ‘80s. It demonstrates a classic show with standard costumes, music and lip sync performance…

Joseph Koo is a Chinese Canadian composer and is widely touted as being the father of Cantopop, having pioneered and paved the way throughout the late 20th century for musicians in this genre. The starting point of Cantopop can thus be traced to his…

The photo shows Lyle Talbot, Louis Hall, and Phillip Shad, three Black men from Dresden who were refused service at local restaraunts in the 1950s. They were part of the Dresden sit ins and led to the first real enforcement of anti-discrimination…

This Photo shows the Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Edmonton in 1921. It was both a place of worship and a social and political centre for Black families to congregate. Through the church, they built networks, youth programs, choirs,…

This biographical anthology entry places Edward Mitchell Bannister within a broader community of notable Black Americans in the late nineteenth century. It provides a rare contemporary acknowledgment of his artistic and abolitionist achievements at a…