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A book.

This CBC article highlights a documentary featuring Irvine and Daisy Carvery, two former Africville residents. Through their personal stories, this piece captures the community’s resilience, daily life, and the challenges of displacement following…

A book about Black life in 1960s Montreal.

A video with recollections of a Black student in Perry Anderson's class, as well as primary footage of Perry Anderson responding to questions about his Black students. The crux of the whole affair is told neatly and quickly in this video. Perry…

This is a photograph of a Telegram article written by Pat McNenly (including pictures by Leo Harrison) in 1954, centering around the action of Bromley Armstrong and Ruth Lor in testing the recently enacted Equal Accommodations Act of that year during…

An article about Contrast the Black run newspaper started in response to the Sir George Williams affair.

This Poster encouraged white men to join the Army and fight overseas, using themes like masculinity and duty to entice impressionable young men. Unlike white Canadians, Black Canadians weren't allowed in the majority of military units and were forced…

This article from the May 1989 issue of Rites, a queer Toronto publication, recounts a feud between COMBAT (Community Organizations Mutually. Battling AIDS Together) and Christie Blatchford, a columnist for The Toronto Sun. The organization protested…

Outlines the case of s"ix [redacted]" who were arrested for vagrancy in the town of Estevan