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Japanese-Canadians marching on Parliament Hill to seek redress after wrongdoings committed against them during the Second World War.

The Canadian government recognized Jackie Washington’s talent and contributions to Canadian music culture and inducted him into the Canadian Jazz and Blues Hall of Fame in 2002. Washington was adamant to preserve his family's heritage and cultural…

This is an image of Jackie Shane from the late 1960s in what would have been generally considered masculine clothing at the time, despite her feminine identity. Here, Jackie is shown presenting herself confidently as something outside of the norm,…

An animated image of people of different skin colours holding different kinds of signs, all protesting against anti-black racism.

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…

In 1987, Stanley Grizzle interviewed several former sleeping car porters, one of whom was Frank Collins. Frank Collins worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in Vancouver. He was born in Vancouver on August 11, 1915, and became a sleeping car…

Link to the full interview: https://www.aidsactivisthistory.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/aahp-dionne-falconer.pdf
This is an excerpt from an interview by the AIDS Activist History Project with Dionne A. Falconer, who was a leading figure in Black…

The pull toward opportunity grew even stronger through the work described by Velma Iris Coward King, whose efforts within the Ladies’ Auxiliary, (organizing plays, coordinating fundraisers, and raising money for scholarships), made Montreal…

Many Black families were pushed from their homes because of discrimination, limited schooling, and unstable jobs, creating a need to move somewhere with real economic security. Montreal became that destination because the railroad industry offered…

As Black families arrived in Montreal seeking stability they had been denied elsewhere, the city’s developing community networks became an additional pull factor. Evelyn Braxton’s memories of the Ladies’ Auxiliary hosting cultural gatherings,…