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The holiest event in the Christian calendar. Celebrations happen in many ways around the world, but all point to the same thing. Jesus Christ risen from the dead, a sign of God’s grace to us as we are adopted children of God promised with eternal life. We shout our Hallelujah’s...
Jean Augustine was born in Granada in 1937 and, like many of the Sleeping Car Porters, moved to Canada as a domestic worker for a year to gain permanent residency status. After completing her year as a domestic, Ms. Augustine attended the Toronto Teacher’s College and then started her teaching...
African-Canadian Women in the Early 20th Century Last week, we learned that that when the Black sleeping car porters on the railways began unionizing, they sent secret messages to keep their activities from being detected by the anti-union corporations. But how did they send them? Through their wives, sisters and...
Changing Canadian Employment & Immigration In the early 20th century, the train was the primary form of transportation across Canada. The porters on these trains were Black men, hired from Canada, the United States and the Caribbean. In fact, being a porter was one of the only jobs available to...
Thornton Blackburn was born into slavery in Maysville, Kentucky in 1812. While enslaved, he met and married Lucie. When they learned that Lucie was to be auctioned off, they escaped. Carrying forged papers identifying them as free African Americans, the couple travelled north by steamboat, then by stagecoach, ending...
The vision of God’s Kingdom is one where all races, tribes and nations are welcomed and made one in Christ Jesus. However, we exist in a society with systemic racism – one which has historically ignored the significant impacts that Black Canadians have had on our country. To work towards...
The ‘Take Note Vocal Ensemble’, in partnership with St. Paul’s, is producing a dramatic reading of Charles Dickens’ classic tale “A Christmas Carol”. A group of 5 professional actors will orate a CBC-edited version of the famous tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his late-evening visits from three very unusual uninvited...
Kizzmekia “Kizzy” Shanta Corbett is an American viral immunologist. Corbett was the scientific lead of a COVID-19 Team with research efforts aimed at COVID-19 vaccines. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Corbett started working on a vaccine to protect people from coronavirus disease. Recognizing that the virus was similar...
Dr. Howard McCurdy was a Canadian activist, a member of Parliament, and a professor of science. Born in London Ontario on December 10, 1932, he moved to Amherstburg at the age of nine where he faced racism from his earliest years. The town assumed the Black community would want their...
This Boxing Day, many of us were saddened to hear the news that Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa had died. A vocal opponent of apartheid, Archbishop Tutu fought for justice in South Africa and beyond, receiving the Nobel Peace prize for his work in 1984. Born in 1931 in...
