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Link to the full video: https://youtu.be/bdjatvBN93M
In this excerpt of a promotional video for Black CAP (The Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention) looking back on its history, Dionne A. Falconer speaks on her experience leading the movement and…

Charles Burke's club had to move due to the construction of the Bonaventure Expressway. As he noted, “most cities in America and Canada, when they built these freeways, the rich people said, don’t come near my property with no outlet. So they went…

Founded in 1957 by Charlie Burke, the Black Bottom opened at 1350 rue Saint-Antoine Ouest in Petite-Burgundy, the heart of Montreal’s Black community. The club quickly became one of the city’s most vibrant venues, celebrated for its affordable…

The birth record of Oscar Cornwall Mortimer, Nancy Elvina Alexander's grandson

A detailed black-and-white bird’s-eye lithograph of a large plantation property, including agricultural fields, orchards, livestock pastures, several buildings, carriages, and fences.

Bertrand Bickersteth was born in Sierra Leone but was raised in the Canadian Prairies. His African heritage has had a huge impact on his life in the Canadian Prairies. He is a writer in an African periodical that is in Calgary, and he studied the…

Bernice Redmon, the first Black Registered Nurse in Canada, passes the Nurses Examiners Board of Virginia, and becomes a Registered Nurse in November 1944. She studied at the St. Phillip's Hospital, because Canadian schools did not accept Black women…

This is a photograph of St. Phillip's public health nursing class of 1945. Bernice Redmon, Canadian-born Black Registered Nurse, is in the front row, far left, the first. She’s a good example of what Black Canadian women went through in attempts to…

Bernice Carnegie Redmon's nurse certificate