Jun 26th, 2024
Sporting Justice: the Chatham Coloured All-Stars and Black Baseball in Southwestern Ontario, 1915-1958.
Heidi Jacobs
A new resource of the Leddy Library provides a gateway to materials of local Black history.
May 24th, 2024
A new resource of the Leddy Library provides a gateway to materials of local Black history.
Irene Moore Davis displays an artifact at the Amherstburg Freedom Museum. Allen Watkins used this trunk to transport his children to freedom.
Jan 25th, 2024
The Essex County Black Historical Research Society and Leddy Library will launch a new project celebrating the rich Black history of Sandwich on Monday, Jan. 29.
A new digital exhibition offers a glimpse of life in Canada during the Second World War.
Nov 9th, 2023
A new digital exhibition offers a glimpse of life in Canada during the Second World War.
Librarian Heidi L.M. Jacobs’ monograph 1934: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars’ Barrier-Breaking Year is generating international media interest.
Jul 11th, 2023
Globe and Mail
Delegates to the Amherstburg Regular Missionary Baptist Association at Windsor’s First Baptist Church. Photo by Alvin McCurdy, courtesy of the Archives of Ontario.
May 4th, 2023
In the first half of the 20th century, Windsor was home to a dynamic Black community located in the metropolitan core. Situated east of the downtown commercial district, the McDougall Street Corridor was a mostly self-sufficient African Canadian community bounded loosely by Riverside Drive, Goyeau Street, Giles Street, and Howard Avenue.
This historic neighbourhood emerged during the mid-19th century as African American freedom seekers and free people of colour crossed the Detroit River in search of refuge from enslavement and oppression.
The digital archive “We Were Here” documents the history of Windsor’s McDougall Street corridor.
Mar 21st, 2023
A new resource of the Leddy Library aims to recover the stories of Windsor’s McDougall Street corridor.
Ten women will share their stories of immigration and adaptation to Canada through the focus of a pair of shoes in the Feb. 26 presentation “Taking New Steps.”
Feb 16th, 2023
Women will share their stories of immigration to Canada through the focus of a pair of shoes in the Feb. 26 presentation “Taking New Steps.”
The Leddy library has pulled together materials celebrating 28 Black scientists in observance of Black History Month.
Feb 1st, 2023
The Leddy library has pulled together materials celebrating 28 Black scientists in observance of Black History Month.
The Leddy Library will launch the Journal of Canadian Baseball/Revue du baseball canadien (JCB/RBC) during the Canadian Baseball History Conference, Nov. 12 and 13 at the University of Windsor.
Nov 8th, 2022
The Leddy Library will launch the Journal of Canadian Baseball/Revue du baseball canadien (JCB/RBC) this weekend.