The Jim Crow Car

or, Denouncement of injustice meted out to the black race : Supreme Court decision by His Lordship Bishop H.M. Turner, largely quoted and elucidated, clippings from Miss Ida B. Wells Barnett's "The reason why", grave state of affairs in the Southern States, incidents on railroads, public conveyances, employment, etc. (1898)

Black Ice - The Colored Hockey League, Nova Scotia

                       THE CHL

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The Lost History of the Coloured Hockey League (CHL)

THE LOST HISTORY OF THE COLORED HOCKEY LEAGUE OF
THE MARITIMES 1895-1925

Halifax Eurekas 1906 of the CHL – Coloured Hockey League

With certainty, we can only date Black hockey to the early 1870’s, yet we know that hockey and Black history in Nova Scotia have parallel roots, going back almost 100 years . Among the first reports of hockey being played occur in 1815 along the isolated Northwest Arm, south of Halifax. The date is important for the simple fact that as late as October 1815 the region was not home to a large White settlement but was instead the site of a small Black enclave. Four Black families originally from the Chesapeake Bay area, with a total of fifteen children, had relocated and settled on the Arm. It is reported that these families, Couney, Williams, Munro and Leale, received adequate food, lodging and employment implying that their children were healthy and would have been able to play hockey during the winter months when the Arm was frozen and suitable for skating. Were these children among the first Canadians to play the game of hockey? We do not know. All we can say is that the coincidence between the date of the Northwest Arm’s Black settlement and the first records of hockey being played in the area are worthy of reflection.  (See more)                                                        by George and Darril Fosty                                          

                                                                           Black Nova Scotia Hockey Circa 1910

                               

                                       See also the article     The CHL is Black History

Canadian Black History, Speakers for the Dead

The compelling story of how Black original settlers of Priceville, Ontario were driven off their land and erased from memory  in spite of the fact that they had cleared and domesticated the land. The story comes to a head over the restoration of the cemetery belonging to the original settlers.

Updates
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Grey County’s black heritage is getting a more permanent memorial.

The Old Durham Road Pioneer Cemetery near Flesherton was the burial ground for 19th century black settlers.

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BlackburnNews.com - Lieutenant Governor To Visit Grey County 
The dedication is scheduled for 2pm on Sunday, September 20 at the cemetery located at the corner of Grey County Rd. 14 and the Durham Rd.

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Unidentified Black Family
Ontario Archives

This documentary reveals some of the hidden history of Black people in Canada. In the 1930s in rural Ontario, a farmer buried the tombstones of a Black cemetery to make way for a potato patch. In the 1980s, descendants of the original settlers, Black and White, came together to restore the cemetery, but there were hidden truths no one wanted to discuss. Deep racial wounds were opened. Scenes of the cemetery excavation, interviews with residents and re-enactments--including one of a baseball game where a broken headstone is used for home plate--add to the film's emotional intensity.