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The Coloured Women's Club of Montreal (CWCM) was established in 1902 by seven African-Canadian women whose husbands worked on the railways as sleeping car porters, and was modelled after the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC). This…

The African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church quickly spread throughout the United States, into Canada, and later, into Africa. In 1856, many of the Canadian congregations broke off from the American branch of the AME because of the Fugitive Slave…