Browse Items (687 total)

Pages 2-3 of the Nova Scotia Gleaner, a newspaper published monthly in Sydney, N.S. and edited by F.A. Hamilton. Pages 2-3 are an article named "New Waterford Notes - New Hall Opened." The article talks about the opening of the New Waterford UNIA…

The Olivet Baptist Church was the second location used by the United Union Church as a place to congregate. This was a big step for the church because it meant they were gaining enough participants and enough funds to afford the upgrade from the…

Richard Preson was an incredible important person for the development and growth of the Black Baptist Church. As a former slave from Virginia who had been a preacher on the plantations, he knew he wanted to continue to do that work when he bought his…

Two letters from John H. Means to Showing that the heating conditions in the shacks that Black workers at DISCO were terrible. The first letter on the 21st states there are multiple houses with black men from Alabama living in that have no heaters in…

The plan clearly shows the shacks Black workers lived in, and it states, "Shacks (mostly coloured tenants)." The shacks held Black, Polish, Hungarian, Italian and Newfoundlanders. The shacks were in disgusting conditions without heat or water, and…

The United States enacted the Volstead Act in 1919, successfully banning the production, distribution, and selling of alcohol. Although Canada never enacted the Prohibition, The Canada Temperance Act of 1878 gave local governments the option to ban…

This is a chart taken from Statistics Canada, that indicates the foreign-born population (immigrants living in Canada) in Canada. As one could see from the chart, immigration generally increased, but for the purposes of this tab, the Caribbean…

Rhoda (Young) Anstey, originally from Jamaica, started working at St. Michael’s Hospital in 1961. She became Head Nurse 7 years later, retiring in 1994. She is an example of an immigrant nurse from the West Indies, travelling to Canada for work.…

Lillie Johnson was born in Jamaica in 1922, received training there and in the UK. She came to Canada in 1960, receiving a BScN from the University of Toronto. She became the first Black director of public health in Ontario. The picture shows her…

This landscape shows Duncanson’s engagement with Canadian geography during his time in Quebec. It reinforces the exhibit’s argument that Black artists helped shape the early visual culture of Canada.