Congratulations to Heidi Jacobs

Congratulations to Heidi Jacobs and to our alumna Irene Moore Davis for their stellar work The North Was Our Canaan: Exploring Sandwich Town’s Underground Railroad – which has just won the Lieutenant-Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation! Links below to the Windsor Star and Daily News articles, and to the film itself at Leddy.

The film has also won several awards, including best Canadian short documentary and best director awards at the International Black and Diversity Film Festival (IBDFF 2021). 

https://www.uwindsor.ca/dailynews/2022-03-04/documentary-earns-lieutenant-governor%E2%80%99s-ontario-heritage-award

https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/local-documentary-team-wins-ontario-heritage-award

https://collections.uwindsor.ca/omeka-s/nwoc/page/video