A photo from Choltu Curlin’s personal archive with the annotation “bidding friends farewell at Pearson Airport during the summer of 1987.”| MOBA
Author: Syriah Bailey| MOBA
A photo of two tombstones which mark the graves of Black settlers in Ontario. (William Felepchuk)| MOBA
Fig. 1. Swimming. Merlyn Bryant; Laurent Mallette, 27 July 1943. Source: Bibliothèque et| MOBA
There is no definitive national Black archive in Canada to preserve, promote, and protect the historical books, documents, and artefacts of Black Canadians. Instead, Canada’s Black archive comprises disparate collections, spread across the country, that aim to preserve the histories of African Canadians who live(d) in specific provinces and/or cities and/or towns. 1 By contrast, national Black archives exist in other parts of the world. In the Netherlands, for instance, there is a historica...| MOBA