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  • They Lived Next Door to a Dictator
    Neighbours to the "Butcher” Idi Amin earned the nickname “The Butcher of Uganda” for atrocities committed under his presidency, including the killing of as many as 500,000 people. In 1969, two years before seizing power in a coup d’état, Amin was commander of the country’s armed forces. Usha and …
  • Weaving Cultural Identities
    November 12, 2022 - January 22, 2023 Credit: Dawn Livera & Adrienne Neufeld (textile artists), Doaa Jamal (graphic artist), Find What You Need, woven cotton warp and Canadian wool weft with supplemental yarn from around the world. Weaving Cultural Identities uses traditional weaving as a …
  • Experiences of Place: Immigration Experiences in Sault Ste. Marie
    Introduction: The Research Project My name is Jay Patel. I am a York University student majoring in History, and I completed an experiential education placement with the Canadian Museum of Immigration in 2022. The placement was with CMI’s Oral History Program, under the supervision of Dr. Emily …
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  • The Year Nearly 100,000 Irish Sailed to Canada
    32 pairs of children’s shoes, cast in bronze, dot a 165 km trail in Ireland known as the National Famine Way. Crossing six counties, it marks the path taken by twelve-year-old Daniel Tighe and 1,489 others, two-thirds of them children . Suffering from famine and in dispute with their English …
  • Stephanie Bernard
    Animated by Greg Doble Music by Sigmund Washington Stephanie Bernard moved to Ontario from Jamaica in 2007. In 2013, she moved to Iqaluit and became the president of the Nunavut Black History Society, which runs Black History Month festivities and programming every February. In 2020, Stephanie …
  • Stephanie Bernard, Described Video
    Animated by Greg Doble Music by Sigmund Washington Stephanie Bernard moved to Ontario from the United Kingdom by way of Jamaica in 2007. In 2013 she moved to Iqaluit and became the president of the Nunavut Black History Society, which runs Black History Month festivities and programming every …
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