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Nancy Payne, editor of Kayak: Canada’s History Magazine for kids, shares her experience visiting Buxton National Historic Site and Museum and learning about slavery.

Black schoolteachers strove to educate children while resisting racial injustice.

With funding from the John Bragg Award, the story of Black activist Rocky Jones is arriving onstage in Halifax.

Canadian boxer Tommy Burns was eager to take on all comers, regardless of their race. But in 1908, he lost his world heavyweight title to a Black boxer — infuriating white society. The groundbreaking choice to fight Jack Johnson ended up costing Burns his boxing career. Watch the video of this famous bout.

Afua Cooper Transcript

This lesson will ask students to use creative, academic, and observational skills to define terms which are important to understanding Afro Indigenous ancestry and to reflect on how media has been used over time to express important ideas about justice and ethnicity.

African Canadian History: An Untold Story Transcript

Famous the world over, for a lifetime of luxurious comfort and warmth — Hudson's Bay Point Blankets.

How training, timing, and new battle tactics helped Canada capture Vimy Ridge. 

Hidden Cemeteries of Essex County Transcript