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This is a photograph taken of the aftermath of protests in 1969, where students occupied the computer room of the Sir George Williams University (now Concordia) until violently dispersed by police. This moment comes during a time of increased unified…

This news report, entitled “Inside the 1969 Sir George Williams student protest”, is a piece of archived content from CBC’s The Way It Is program, originally aired during the protests of the same name and year. This report interviews student…

This handwritten account retells the tragic story of Lydia Jackson, a Black Loyalist woman who, like her compatriots, was promised freedom upon her resettlement in Nova Scotia, only to be deceived by her employer, sold back into slavery to another…

More than a page was dedicated to Myron Sutton after he passed away in 1982, the grieving article goes over his musical career and all the things we went through to continue pursuing his passion. It details his inability to play in large venues or…

A letter from John H. means, Superintendent of furnaces at DISCO to Tom Goodwin, worker at Woodward Iron Company. Tom (a white man) was used to recruit workers for Means but was told to send any men he found to George strong (a Black recruiter for…

Two letters from John H. Means to Showing that the heating conditions in the shacks that Black workers at DISCO were terrible. The first letter on the 21st states there are multiple houses with black men from Alabama living in that have no heaters in…

This runaway advertisement reveals one of the most common forms of resistance among enslaved Black folks in colonial Canada: flight. While there are countless records of messages like this one posted in newspapers by slave owners, exposing the…

writings from Lieutenant Governor John Wentworth expressing hope that recently settled maroons will become good citizens if only "civilized" by introduction to Christian religion

The Grand Caribana Parade on Yonge Street