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This map shows the vast territory known as New France in 1712, including parts of what are now known as Quebec, Ontario, and a portion of the United States. It outlines the major cities present in colonial Canada, such as Montreal, which, due to…

This newspaper clipping from the Halifax Gazette lists a group on enslaved people for sale, including a couple of children, showing that Canadian slavery did not refrain from using minors as often as adults to carry out labour. As many historians…

Matthew Elliott was a wealthy white Loyalist who lived in Southwestern Ontario, and one of the richest and most merciless slaveowners in British North America. This historic illustration, made decades after the abolition of slavery in the British…

Nettie Ware and her friend around 1925. I think that this image shows how Nettie is seen as a very successful woman, and that her homesteading beginnings are often left out of her many accomplishments. Her homesteading beginnings is what shaped her…

In this quote, Goldie emphasizes that her community is facing a lot of discrimination for being Black Canadians. She has faced a lot of troubles and sorrows because of this. Even with these troubles, because they have community and are facing the…

This quote about Nettie Ware is about how Nettie Ware was a greatly known person because she was a genuine person, not just a celebrity. She was welling deserving of the doctorate she received because she cared about people and she was dedicated to…

This quote by Ellis Hooks is in response to an incident at the local school. The Black Canadians have been in the Canadian Prairies for as long as many other settlers and yet they are not being treated as such. Ellis Hooks is determined to let them…

A letter from John H. means, Superintendent of furnaces at DISCO to Tom Goodwin, worker at Woodward Iron Company. Tom (a white man) was used to recruit workers for Means but was told to send any men he found to George strong (a Black recruiter for…

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,…