Book review: The book Unsettling the Great White North is clear from its opening sentences that it’s a collection of essays that “engages with and interrupts the myth of benign Whiteness that has been deeply implanted” in the Canadian consciousness.
Nancy Payne, editor of Kayak: Canada’s History Magazine for kids, shares her experience visiting Buxton National Historic Site and Museum and learning about slavery.
With its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century, the north Halifax community known as Africville was eventually home to eighty mainly black families.
Canadian boxer Tommy Burns was eager to take on all comers, regardless of their race. But in 1908, he lost his world heavyweight title to a Black boxer — infuriating white society. The groundbreaking choice to fight Jack Johnson ended up costing Burns his boxing career. Watch the video of this famous bout.
