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Rufus Rockhead’s Jazz Club was an extremely monumental location that defined St. Antoine's Street and Little Burgundy district as the “Harlem of the North”. Although there were restrictions on what property Black citizens could own at the time of its…

This article explains why Shauntay Grant created a children’s book to revisit the legacy of Africville. It highlights how the story offers a gentle, age‑appropriate entry point into a painful chapter of Canadian history, the story conveys a sense of…

“Irvine Carvery’s a Born Optimist” by Stephen Kimber is a profile of Irvine Carvery written in 1994 that showcases Africville’s story within its continuing legacy. The article emphasizes resilience and pride among former residents and their…

This passage explains how deeply connected Africville families were, and how the community’s social structure operated in ways that official records could never fully capture. It describes the various forms of tight-knit relationships that held the…

This passage from Africville: The Life and Death of a Canadian Black Community, highlights how central the Seaview African United Baptist Church was to daily life in Africville. The church was not just a religious space, it was also a social,…

Female team wearing Canada uniforms, Barbara Howard pictured wearing number 22

This video is part of a rebuttal broadcast produced by the Chinese Canadian Council of Ontario during the W5 “Campus Giveaway” protests in 1979. It works to dismantle and rebuke claims targeting Chinese Canadian students as being inherently foreign,…

This Photograph shows Ethelbert Bartholomew, a Trinidadian medical student who was kicked out of Queen's University in 1918 because of a racist ban against Black medical students. Unable to continue his studies he became a railway porter in Montreal.…