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This is a flyer advertising a discussion forum hosted by Black CAP (The Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention) surrounding HIV positive Black women. This is one of many public initiatives launched by the organizations aimed at educating different…

This was an advertisement from 1993 made by the Bisexual Women’s Anthology in the Sister Vision Press opening with, “CALLING ALL BISEXUAL WOMEN”. The intended purpose of this advertisement was to gather bisexual women to write an anthology about…

This is another news report, entitled “Chinese-Canadians enter the professions in the 1950s”, of archived content from the CBC and reporter Bill Cunningham, originally aired in 1957. Now sufficiently distanced from 1945, the end of the Second World…

Black and White Still Image of a Minstrel Show occurring at Orangeville Lions Club in Ontario, during the 1950s. Pictured are around 2 dozen men on a stage, wearing face paint to darken their skin.

This portrait shows John Eardley Wilmot, a British judge involved in politics during the late 18th century. His work formed part of the legal framework that allowed Black and white Loyalists to cross over into Canada, as he had been tasked with…

This watercolour painting showcases an overseer supervising two enslaved women as they work on a plantation. Although the scene takes place in Virginia, it somewhat reflects the labour performed by enslaved Black Canadians. They carried out similar…

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.…

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,…

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