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Cape Breton Island outline

Recollection of Mattie Mayes' decedents

This was a booklist made by Makeda Silvera titled “Becoming Visible: The legacy of Stonewall” (1992-1994) that contained both lesbian and gay writings. Silvera’s compilation of queer literature meant that numerous queer voices had the chance to be…

excerpt from the Mail Star showing how a professor at the University of Toronto was being brought to Halifax to study the rehousing of Africville families

A magazine article discussing Dianne Brooks as a musician, and touches on her rise to stardom

In 1946, Louis Metcalf, a trumpet player who had been a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra in the late 1920s, relocated to Montréal. He formed the Louis Metcalf International Band, which quickly became a cornerstone of the city’s jazz scene and…

This church was founded in 1847 to service London, Ontario's growing Black population. Seeing as they did not have the funds to construct themselves a church, they used an old home as a place to congregate. This small chapel was a common place for…