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This petition, signed by residents of Africvill,e aimed to have the city of Halifax install a community well. The petition shows a strong sense of community which existed in Africville, where they collectively pushed the city to provide them with…

An RCMP Regina Depot graduation still during the time of Hartley Gosline.

A depot graduation photo during the time of David Lawrence Harding.

Letter between "H" Division Halifax and the Sydney Sub-division (1941) deciding whether to let 2 eligible men take the test, on account of discrimination.

Portrait of Constable Hartley Gosline, one of the first black RCMP officers graduating from Regina Depot.

A Portrait of Shelley Peters, the first black female officer of the RCMP, who went on to have a long career with the force.

Raymond Coker was a sleeping car porter in 1953 and talks about how his life was before the Fair Employment Practices Act and expresses how difficult financial life was then for a Black man trying to support his family. He recalls wanting to make a…

Cy McLean described the racial discrimination he faced while touring Canada and about how he had problems getting into the musicians union. Even after accomplishing the task of finding work and gigs to play at, he continued to encounter difficulties…