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Section 91 (24) of the British North America Act, 1867, was perceived as an act to help the Indigenous population, but was truly an act to assimilate their community.

Herb is interviewed about his rise to the league, barriers stopping him, overlaid with footage and images of Herb playing

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…

Physical material from the first triennial international convention for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. This convention, from 1953, took place in Los Angeles, California. Hundreds of porters and their wives took the train from the US and…

This was part of a speech made by Angela Robertson in Toronto in March 1989 on International Women’s Day, which was developed by the Black Women’s Collective. The Black Women’s Collective was an organization that was active in the late 1980s, with a…

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,…

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…

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…