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UNIA member meeting

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…

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…

Death certification of Esther Roan, the occupation section lists her as a midwife

In 1967, city assessors documented Little Burgundy ahead of urban renewal, taking over a thousand photographs of homes, businesses, and community spaces. The closure of the local schools further disrupted the community, as citizen Yvonne McGrath…

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

Yvonne Phillpotts at Kingston Public Hospital