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A farmer is framed pruning rhododendron in This One’s for the Farmer. (Image: Sylvia Borda) “Farming and art do not run in tandem [and] we tend to have an absence of knowledge of how we get our food,” said artist Sylvia Borda in her UFV greenSPEAK lecture on September 25. Borda envisioned something unique: the amalgamation of art and agriculture. “As an artist I realized the past of art had a pastoral view,” Borda said. “As a result, [farming in art] became static. It became suicide to touch.” To reiterate the latter, Borda presented van Gogh’s painting “Arles: View from the...

Article content Historian Jane McGaughey says COVID-19 has managed something unique when compared with Montreal’s pestilences past. Neither the cholera epidemics of the 1830s nor the 1847 typhus contagion, which killed between 3,000 and 6,000 Irish immigrants, could force cancellation of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. COVID did just that for the first time in the parade’s 197-year history, McGaughey says, with last year’s edition and this year’s festivities aborted. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or What we can learn from epidemics that...

March 12, 2021 Black people have lived in Canada since the beginnings of transatlantic settlement. Although historically very few arrived directly from their ancestral homeland in Africa, the term "African Canadian" is used to identify all descendants of Africa regardless of their place of birth. “Black Canadian” is also used as a more general term. The earliest arrivals were enslaved people brought from New England or the West Indies. Between 1763 and 1900, most Black migrants to Canada were fleeing enslavement in the US. (See also Black Enslavement in Canada.) Black pe...

Sunday 28 February 2021, 01:00pm - 02:30pm Hits : 148 Archivist, Jennifer Weymark, explains how the Oshawa Museum learned about one of the first Black families in Oshawa. This lecture traces the lives of one of Oshawa’s first Black families. We follow the matriarch Wealthy as she travels from Vermont to Lower Canada and finally Upper Canada. Four generations of this family, living everyday lives, have exposed the biases and prejudice of the time, but also the strength and courage of conviction they had.  

By Lorna Hart - Special to OVP OHIO VALLEY — The Underground Railroad reached its peak in the 1850’s, and has become synonymous with the battle to end slavery. This vast network helped runaway slaves to escape to the north, and often onto Canada. It was made up of a diverse group of people, the majority of whom were free blacks. Along with their white supporters, the Underground Railroad is estimated to have helped 100,000 slaves between 1810 and 1850. Considering that at the end of the Civil War there were approximately 3.7 million freed slaves, the percentage of fugitives was small. But...