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Josiah Henson (Photo: Schlesinger Library, Harvard University)

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Celebrating Josiah – Introducing the Josiah Henson Museum of African-Canadian History

“I’ll use my freedom well.” Josiah Henson made this promise to Captain Burnham, who helped him and his family in the last part of their...

A provincial plaque was unveiled in 2010 as part of the Emancipation Day event at Uncle Tom’s Cabin Historic Site in Dresden to commemorate Hugh Burnett and the National Unity Association.

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Setting the record straight – Updating four Black history plaques

I’d like to tell you about Solomon Moseby. In 1837, Moseby fled to Niagara to escape slavery in Kentucky. When his extradition back to the...

Kendra Campbell, Archives of Ontario Researcher

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Black heritage

To be dignified, stylish and Black in the 19th century was to defy expectations

In summer 2018, the Black Artists’ Networks Dialogue Gallery and Cultural Centre (BAND) presented Redefining Black Identity, an exhibit that featured 19th-century Black portraiture. The...

F 2076-16-3-2/Unidentified woman and her son, [ca. 1900], Alvin D. McCurdy fonds, Archives of Ontario, I0027790.

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We’ve always been here: Black women’s history of voting rights and politics in Canada

The history of Black women’s voting rights in Canada must be understood in the context of their evolving social status in the nation’s preceding French...

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From Happy Hill to Parliament Hill: An interview with trailblazer Jean Augustine

Among her many accolades, the Honourable Jean Augustine has the distinction of being Canada’s first Black female Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister. An educator...

A plate adorned with a scene from Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Photo courtesy of Timmins Martelle Heritage Consultants Inc. and Infrastructure Ontario)

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Hopes for the future

My life as an archaeologist often consists of hour upon hour of painstaking analysis of small bits and pieces of everyday life. But last year...

North Buxton Maple Leaf Band at a tattoo hosted in North Buxton, 1960 (Photo courtesy of Adrienne Shadd)

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Reflections on my hometown

In the year of the 150th birthday of Canada, I would like to pay tribute to my hometown. North Buxton started out in 1849 as...

Leap of Faith mural by the George Brown School of Design team at the Lucie and Thornton Blackburn Conference Centre.

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Digging for the Promised Land

In 1985, the Toronto school board and Ontario’s culture ministry created the Archaeological Resource Centre. There, schoolchildren and volunteers could dig into their own city’s...