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An audio recording of "Any Other Way" by Jackie Shane. This specific recording is from her live album, "Jackie Shane Live!," released in 1967. This song was incredibly popular in Canada, both when it was first released and rereleased. The importance…

This is an image of Jackie Shane from the late 1960s in what would have been generally considered masculine clothing at the time, despite her feminine identity. Here, Jackie is shown presenting herself confidently as something outside of the norm,…

This was a photo taken of Afua Cooper, who helped build queer-inclusive Black feminist circles in Toronto in the 1980s-90s. She is best known as a poet and a scholar of Black Canadian history, but she helped lay the foundation for queer safe spaces…

This was an advertisement for an organization called Zami as seen on the front page of a queer-focused magazine called Xtra!. Zami was founded in 1984 by a Black lesbian feminist, Debbie Douglas, along with other members like Courtnay McFarlane.…

This was part of a speech made by Angela Robertson in Toronto in March 1989 on International Women’s Day, which was developed by the Black Women’s Collective. The Black Women’s Collective was an organization that was active in the late 1980s, with a…

This is a permit application for an extension to the Africville school shows that the community was growing and investing in future generations. The fact that there were residents pushing for a larger school demonstrates that Africville’s population…

This repair permit for the Seaview United Baptist Church highlights both the church’s significance in Africville and Deacon Ralph Jones’s commitment as an individual community leader. The permit shows that residents actively worked to maintain and…

This is a 1957 building permit application submitted by Matilda Newman, a resident of Africville. The permit, approved by the City of Halifax’s Office of the Building Inspector, is a record of Newman’s request “to occupy” a building within the…

Aaron “Pa” Carvery’s marriage license registered in 1927, offers an intimate look into his life after his hockey years, showing him listed as a labourer, a detail that reflects both his personal resilience and the realities faced by many Africville…

Recollection of Mattie Mayes' decedents