Deanna Bowen

Souvenir album containing statistical information about Berlin, including photographs and illustrations of local businesses, factories and notable people, at the beginning of the 20th century.

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The Parents' Information Bureau (PIB) fonds consists of records from the clinic for family planning and birth control set up by A.R. (Alvin Ratz) Kaufman of the Kaufman Rubber Company in the 1930s. The main branch of the PIB was located at 410 King Street West in Kitchener, Ontario. Between the mid-1930s and the mid-1970s the PIB published a series of numbered reports, forms, and informational pamphlets regarding birth control and sterilization. The publication numbers were reused by the PIB for revised editions and for documents containing information about related topics that were likely circulated as part of an information packet. See the Parents' Information Bureau fonds finding aids for more information. Content note: The views expressed in PIB publications reflect the era in which they were produced. They include family planning thinking rooted in eugenics, the belief that the genetic makeup of the human population can be improved by limiting the ability of people deemed inferior from reproducing. Demeaning language about lower class and disabled people appear throughout. Information about the handling of this type of language in archival descriptions can be found on the Special Collections & Archives website.

Recently, Archives of Ontario has added 155 images to its existing gallery of images, in Wikimedia Commons, from the Alvin D. McCurdy fonds.

Moses Brantford Jr. leading an Emancipation Day parade down Dalhousie Street, Amherstburg, Ontario (I0027817)

On Thursday, December 2nd at 2pm Amherstburg Freedom Museum hosted its next Facebook Live Presenter, Sean Smith, the Senior Archivist at Archives of Ontario....

On 5 July 1916, the Department of Defence and Militia authorized the formation of No. 2 Construction Battalion. It was the largest Black unit in Canadian histor...

This documentary tells the story of the No. 2 Construction Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) — also known as the Black Battalion. The battalion was authorized on 5 July 1916, during the First World War. It was a segregated non-combatant unit, the first and only all-Black battalion in Canadian military history. To learn more, visit: http://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/no-2-construction-battalion/

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The No. 2 Construction Battalion was made up of 605 men who volunteered to serve in the Canadian military.

The Coloured Corps (also known as Runchey's Company of Coloured Men, or Black Corps) was a militia company of Black men raised during the War of 1812....

King remembered absolutely everything about their meeting, including how Hitler held his hands and the smoothness of his skin

National Archives of Canada, MG 26 J Series 13. Berlin Tuesday, June 29, 1937 Interview with Hermann Göring At 10:30, made the first of the day’s call on General Göring who received me in a s…

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- CU15127885 War memorial at Six Nations to honour the 114th Battalion, Brock's Rangers and the 4th Battalion, Haldimand Rifles.

From the early 1900s to the late 1960s, the East Side neighborhood of Strathcona was home to Vancouver’s first and only black community.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Canadian immigration agents carried on a concerted campaign to block Black settlement in Canada. Canadian officials claimed no colour bar existed in their policies, but they created numerous obstacles for Black immigrants. This discriminatory practice was driven by pervasive domestic racism, and reached its fullest expression in 1910-1911. In response to persecuted Black farmers attempting to leave the United States in the hope of a more just life in Canada, Prime Minister Sir Wilfred Laurier’s government used the pretext of their supposed climatic unsuitability to pass an Order-in-Council banning all “negro” immigration.

Lewis Morrison was one of the most prominent stage actors of his time. He was best known worldwide for his portrayal of “Mephistopheles” in Faust. He was also the first black Jewish officer to serve during the Civil War. Lewis Morrison was born in Kingston, … Read MoreMorris W. Morris/ Lewis Morrison (1845-1906)

Children in front of the Marble Village School

Submitted to the Department of History of the University of Windsor In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts, 1966

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This carte-de-visite has a photographic print depicting Sergeant Jacob Johns seated, facing the viewer with his gloved hands resting on his lap. His right elbow is resting on a small, circular side table, while it appears he is holding his left arm up without support. Johns is wearing an oversized four-button sack coat with an outside slash pocket. His uniform includes sergeant bars sewn onto the sleeves of his coat, pants with a dark stripe down the outer side of each leg, a belt with a rectangular metal belt plate, gloves, a sword and sash, and a medal pinned to his proper left chest. Johns wears a goatee. The carte-de-visite is inscribed and signed in ink along the bottom of the mount, reading "Your Obt. Servt, / Jacob Johns". The reverse of the mount is blank.

The invention of the lithographic printing press in 1798 did much to change the way we shared information. It wasn’t long before broadsheets and posters became a common way to attract attention and reach a wide audience.