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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…

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…

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…

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

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,…

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…

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

Sharrers (left) escorting Dustin Byfuglien to the penalty box

This school hosts sessions that assist new hockey officials with becoming certified and properly trained to enter the field

There were no documented Black owned jazz clubs in Toronto from 1920 to 1980 and musicians had limited places to play due to segregated clubs. The Rex was one of those non-segregated clubs but as mentioned, maintained a mainly white audience. Today,…