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A Picture of Donald Moore Sitting

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DISCO finished construction in 1901, making it one of the most modern steel plants in the world, and making Sydney into an important industrial city of North America. The plant was under American management and had mostly American machinery operating…

an episode of the documentary series A Scattering of Seeds

Link to the full documentary: https://youtu.be/AtroR6pOHLY The drag queen in this clip, Matti Dinah, represents a more uncommon type of drag for the time, though it becomes more popular after the 2010s, which deals in playing with gender expression…

Link to the full documentary: https://youtu.be/AtroR6pOHLY Jackae Baker, a drag queen who moved to Toronto from British Guiana and lived with her family at the time of the interview in 2002. Her situation, as she described, was quite rare as she…

Link to the full documentary: https://youtu.be/AtroR6pOHLY In this clip, drag queen Stephanie Stevens discusses her life since moving to Toronto, and needing to find her own family. She shares that her family is christian, meaning that her career and…

A newspaper article written by Patrick Nicholson for the Daily Mercury’s Ottawa Report in October 1953. Nicholson discusses the Fair Employment Practices Act, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of race (among other things) in jobs with…

Statistics garnered from a survey targeted towards minorities in Canada. It is judged from levels of discrimination, discovering two of the most marginalized groups in Canada.