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The photo shows Lyle Talbot, Louis Hall, and Phillip Shad, three Black men from Dresden who were refused service at local restaraunts in the 1950s. They were part of the Dresden sit ins and led to the first real enforcement of anti-discrimination…

Joseph Koo is a Chinese Canadian composer and is widely touted as being the father of Cantopop, having pioneered and paved the way throughout the late 20th century for musicians in this genre. The starting point of Cantopop can thus be traced to his…

Link to the full video: https://youtu.be/nlSfYmpW1Kw
This is a video clip from a drag performance held at Chaps, a Toronto nightclub, presumably in the mid ‘80s. It demonstrates a classic show with standard costumes, music and lip sync performance…

Dr. Alvinus Calder immigrated from Grenada and attended the University of Toronto before he was forced to leave the college due to the fact that his race would offend white students at the school. Calder then went to Queens University, where he got…

This is a photograph of Pearleen Oliver, who was a Black pastor, and a Black rights activist. I will use this image and mainly talk about when Pearleen Oliver was interviewed about her campaign surrounding the inclusion of Black nurses, which serves…

Dr Shadd was known for being a doctor and community leader in Carrot Valley, Saskatchewan. He made the Canadian Parries his life because he cared about the people who lived there and desired for them to be able to be taken care of while living in…

Link to the full interview: https://www.aidsactivisthistory.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/aahp-douglas-stewart.pdf
This segment of an interview with Douglas Stewart, a key figure in the Black CAP (The Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention), depicts…

This early landscape depicts the refined cottages of Dorchester, a wealthy Boston suburb frequented by the patrons Bannister hoped to attract. The painting reveals how he strategically worked within upper-class visual tastes to secure recognition and…

The Donavalon Centre