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A case regarding discrimination based on sex and maternity leave for female RCMP officers.

This Supreme Court case involved Fred Christie, a Black man from Montreal who was refused service at the York Tavern even though he had been served there before. He took them to court on the grounds of discrimination and lost with the judge saying…

This 1951 Supreme Court case struck down a racist real estate covenant that banned the sale of land to anyone who was "Jewish", "Semitic", "Negro", or "coloured." This ruling was important because it effectively ended the use of racist housing…

Newspaper article detailing John H. Means is returning from Tennessee & Alabama to Nova Scotia with about 60 Black people, the steel workers plus their families. It states that Means encountered some opposition to the deportation of the families to…

Newspaper article describing the conditions of the Shacks that immigrant workers lived in (AAs, Hungarians, polish and Newfoundlanders). The houses were described as having no sewage, the ventilation was horrible, no beds but just a very long table,…

This is an article by Sylvia Hamilton who collaborated with Claire Prieto on the documentary Black Mother Black daughter. This source mostly goes into her experience of the creation of the film and how it relates to her life. This shows the impact of…

These stills are behind the scenes shots and stills from the time Claire Prieto was working on Black Mother Black Daughter. That documentary was released in 1989, and this source is an interesting still that shows the work of the era. There are few…

A newspaper clipping about Charles Daniels, an African-Canadian man. It details the case and outcome when he was refused admittance to a local theatre.