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Newspaper page from The Clarion about Viola Desmond's Court Case, discussing what the case is about and when the trial will occur.

In 1928 Rufus Rockhead applied for a beer license, only to be told by the commissioner, “You know we don’t give licenses to coloured people.” Undeterred, Rockhead spent eleven months navigating bureaucracy, leveraging connections, and persistently…

A newspaper review in the Sister Vision Press of “The Very Inside”, an anthology of writing by Asian and Pacific Islander queer women edited by Sharon Lim-Hing. This is another example of the Sister Vision Press helping the voices of queer people…

This poster from World War 1 was made to recruit Black Canadians to the No. 2 Construction Battalion, which was the only segregated Black battalion in Canadian History. The Poster is outright discriminating Black People yet asking them to serve, and…

In "Building an Empire, Uplifting a Race: Race, Uplift, and Transnational Alliances," chapter four of her book, "North of the Color Line," Dr. Saje Mathieu discusses how members of the Order of Sleeping Car Porters worked with other core groups and…

This is a political cartoon entitled “Not ready for these shoes.” designed by Don Resse and published by The Montreal Star in 1960. While other materials discuss this subject more concretely, it is now worth discussing how during the 1960s, the world…