{"id":8113,"date":"2011-02-10T16:09:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T21:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=8113"},"modified":"2011-02-10T16:10:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T21:10:25","slug":"new-collection-shows-lives-of-early-black-settlers-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/02\/new-collection-shows-lives-of-early-black-settlers-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"New collection shows lives of early black settlers in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This photo of two unidentified women depicts Niagara Falls in the background.<\/p><\/div>\n

Brock is celebrating Black History Month by launching a new digitized collection of local records.<\/p>\n

\"reverend-wright-and-family\"Special Collections and Archives<\/a> recently obtained photos and papers (c. 1850-1950) documenting the Bell and Sloman families, who descended from former slaves who came to Canada after the American Civil War.<\/p>\n

The 97 images are wonderful glimpses at historic faces: mostly taken in Ontario, many of them studio portraits, some still unidentified.<\/p>\n

The collection will be posted to a Knowledge Ontario site, “Our Ontario,” at images.ourontario.ca\/Brock<\/a><\/p>\n

“It will be publicly available and we hope the collection will grow over the coming years,\u201d said David Sharron, head of Special Collections and Archives. \u201cThis is the first major archival collection of any kind on black history for Brock. We do have some individual pieces but this is a real body of work.”<\/p>\n

Documents include:<\/p>\n