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A modern-style map showing the commonly used routes of the Underground Railroad, stretching from southern U.S. slave states to northern free states and Canada. Red and blue lines indicate escape paths and major safe locations.

A coloured 19th-century plan of the city of Hamilton, Ontario, divided into numbered wards (I–VII). The map shows detailed street layouts, wharves, railroads, and shoreline features bordering Burlington Bay. Districts are shaded in different colours…

news report about Marrisse Scott's enrollment

A page from the Toronto Daily Star showing a story about Marisse Scott, a young Black woman who was denied entry into a nursing school in Owen Sound because of her race. She began studying in a nursing school in Guelph instead, showing the…

A modern-style map showing the commonly used routes of the Underground Railroad, stretching from southern U.S. slave states to northern free states and Canada. Red and blue lines indicate escape paths and major safe locations.

This sketch is the earliest known image of a Black Loyalist, depicting a man cutting wood in the few years following the foundation of Birchtown. Many Black Loyalists had arrived in Nova Scotia expecting fruitful harvests and economic stability as a…

A watercolour sketch showing a black woodcutter from Birchtown, earliest known image of an African Nova Scotian

This is a graph I created based on the works of Dudley Poston (Et Al.) in the article, “The Global Distribution of the Overseas Chinese Around 1990”, as well as Walton Look Lai and Chee-Beng Tan in the book, The Chinese in Latin America and the…