Community Connections (k-12)
The St. Catharines Museum is offering programs, blogs, videos, activities, and other interpretive experiences to celebrate Black History Month.
This map will allow you to explore some Black History along the Niagara River.
Niagara Military Museum- Offers a Black Military History of Niagara Resource Book and Travelling Exhibit.
Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum- Offers a self-guided walking tour of Black history in NOTL available via an app download and a virtual Black History exhibit on Google Arts & Culture
St. Catharines Museum- Offers a "Follow the North Star" Virtual Tour for Grades 3-12 and Travelling Museum EduKits for "Follow the North Star"
VirtualMuseum.ca- Our Stories - Remembering Niagara's Proud Black History
Ontario Heritage Trust - shares the stories of Ontario’s Black communities through museum sites, web resources, publications and the Provincial Plaque Program.
Tubman Tours- Rochelle Bush is a freedom seeker descendant, born and raised in St. Catharines who is deeply rooted in the community. Her maternal 2xs Great-Grandfather was the minister-in-charge of the Salem Chapel for a period of time when Harriet Tubman was a member.
Niagara’s Black Canadian History Tour hosted by Lezlie Harper of Niagara Bound Tours. It can be described as an outdoor museum tour of beautiful and interesting sites during which Lezlie, a descendant of a Freedom Seeker, tells the stories of those that came before as well as contemporary issues affecting Black people in Canada. The tour covers history from the 18th century to the 20th century. Sites of famous people are visited such as Harriet Tubman, W.E.B. DuBois, Josiah Henson, Anthony Burns and others who visited Niagara. Zoom presentation available for grade 5-12 classes contact@niagaraboundtours.com