Fred Thomas, third from left, with Assumption basketball teammates Bill Coulthard, Ado Rorai, and Tom O’Hara.
The legacy of the late philosophy professor Catherine Hundleby is the subject of a salon Thursday.
Librarian and author Heidi Jacobs has won the 2024 Ontario Speaker’s Book Award for her monograph 1934: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars’ Barrier-Breaking Year.
A new resource of the Leddy Library provides a gateway to materials of local Black history.
Irene Moore Davis displays an artifact at the Amherstburg Freedom Museum. Allen Watkins used this trunk to transport his children to freedom.
A new digital exhibition offers a glimpse of life in Canada during the Second World War.
A new digital exhibition offers a glimpse of life in Canada during the Second World War.
Librarian Heidi L.M. Jacobs’ monograph 1934: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars’ Barrier-Breaking Year is generating international media interest.
Delegates to the Amherstburg Regular Missionary Baptist Association at Windsor’s First Baptist Church. Photo by Alvin McCurdy, courtesy of the Archives of Ontario.
In the first half of the 20th century, Windsor was home to a dynamic Black community located in the metropolitan core. Situated east of the downtown commercial district, the McDougall Street Corridor was a mostly self-sufficient African Canadian community bounded loosely by Riverside Drive, Goyeau Street, Giles Street, and Howard Avenue.
This historic neighbourhood emerged during the mid-19th century as African American freedom seekers and free people of colour crossed the Detroit River in search of refuge from enslavement and oppression.
The digital archive “We Were Here” documents the history of Windsor’s McDougall Street corridor.
