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This landscape captures a serene Quebec lakeside in Duncanson’s signature tonal palette and detailed style. It demonstrates how he integrated Canadian subjects into his broader transnational artistic career.

This painting presents another Quebec lakeside, rendered with Duncanson’s talent in handling water and sky. It reinforces his very significant, yet often overlooked, contribution to the Canadian landscape tradition.

This is a "Lesbian Money" stamp from the Sister Vision Press Fonds in the University of Ottawa's Archives and Special Collections, one of many used during political protests for the gay and lesbian liberation movement. These stamps were used on bills…

A letter from A. Philip Randolph, the president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), to Stanley Grizzle, written in March 1955. Randolph thanks Grizzle for his prior letter, in which Grizzle brought to attention the fact that Black men…

A letter from John H. means, Superintendent of furnaces at DISCO to Tom Goodwin, worker at Woodward Iron Company. Tom (a white man) was used to recruit workers for Means but was told to send any men he found to George strong (a Black recruiter for…

Two letters from John H. Means to Showing that the heating conditions in the shacks that Black workers at DISCO were terrible. The first letter on the 21st states there are multiple houses with black men from Alabama living in that have no heaters in…

Oliver Jones is another important African-Canadian pianist and Jazz musician, especially with regards to his influence on Little Burgundy, a neighborhood in Montreal, Quebec, which became a hub for African diaspora cultural expression. An influential…

A video overviewing key events in Canada's history pertaining to anti-black racism. It highlights key protests starting in the 1960s all the way to the 2010s.