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In 2013, the Fugitive Slave Chapel was almost demolished for real estate. Luckily, London's city council recognized its importance and managed to raise the funds to get it moved and restored. It now stands on Grey street, beside the Beth-Emmanuel…

This runaway advertisement reveals one of the most common forms of resistance among enslaved Black folks in colonial Canada: flight. While there are countless records of messages like this one posted in newspapers by slave owners, exposing the…

This is a frame from the opening of the documentary Some Black Women (1975). This film was worked on by both Roger McTair and Claire Prieto. It is known as one of the first works in the Black Canadian Film history. This work is quite significant…

a painting of Rose Fortune, the daughter of a black loyalist who travelled to Nova Scotia following the American Revolution

This coastal landscape shows figures gathered along the cliffs near Fort Dumpling, overlooking the waters once central to Rhode Island’s slave-trading economy. The tranquil scene alludes to the histories of ships and maritime routes that shaped the…

The Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded in 1945 by Rev. William Pearly Oliver at the Cornwallis Street Baptist Church. They wanted to improve living conditions for Black Nova Scotians and fight discrimination.…

This is a chart taken from Statistics Canada, that indicates the foreign-born population (immigrants living in Canada) in Canada. As one could see from the chart, immigration generally increased, but for the purposes of this tab, the Caribbean…

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…