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A biographical website detailing the life of Faith Nolan and her contributions to anti-discrimination activism.

Musician and singer, Faith Nolan, performing her song "Jailhouse Blues" at the OFL.

This law made it illegal for restaraunts, hotels, theatres, stores etc. to deny service to people based on race and other attributes. It also banned discriminatory signs and advertisements. It also created a process for people to file complaints and…

Stories spanning immigration, citizenship, and legislation between the late 19th century and early 20th century. It heavily underlines discriminatory racial/ethnic and gender understandings of that time.

In 1967, city assessors documented Little Burgundy ahead of urban renewal, taking over a thousand photographs of homes, businesses, and community spaces. The closure of the local schools further disrupted the community, as citizen Yvonne McGrath…

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

​​Film and the City: The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinemabook is a book that explores the Canadian urban perspective on screen. This book has many different sections about Clement Virgo's film Rude (1995). The book talks about Rude being the first…

This image contains two pie charts I created using data from Statistics Canada and the 1986 Canadian Census, the first of which shows the ethnic distribution (along the lines of those with Chinese Ancestry, those with African Ancestry, and the rest…

This Photograph shows Ethelbert Bartholomew, a Trinidadian medical student who was kicked out of Queen's University in 1918 because of a racist ban against Black medical students. Unable to continue his studies he became a railway porter in Montreal.…

Death certification of Esther Roan, the occupation section lists her as a midwife