Ontario's African-Canadian Heritage (ePub)

Frederick H. Armstrong, a Toronto native, attended the University of Toronto, obtaining his M.A. in 1949. In 1960, after some years in business, he returned to take his Ph.D. Following a brief stint of teaching in Toronto, he joined the History Department at the University of Western Ontario. His specializations, both in writing and teaching, were pre-Confederation Ontario and urban history. He has written histories of Toronto and London, Ontario, and many Ontario History articles. Active in the preservation movement, he has been the chair of London's heritage committee, and also president of both the Champlain Society and The Ontario Historical Society.

Hilary Bates Neary has been a librarian trustee, as well as a researcher, editor, and writer of Ontario history. In the 1970s, she contributed to Ontario History's "Book Notes," and edited, along with Robert Sherman, the Index to the Publications of the Ontario Historical Society, 1899-1972. More recently, she co-edited with Michael Baker both London Street Names (2003), 100 Fascinating Londoners (2005) for James Lorimer & Company. She is the chair of the Historic Sites Committee of the London Public Library Board.

Karolyn Smardz Frost is an archaeologist, educator, and author with a doctoate in the History of Race and Slavery. A former executive director of The Ontario Historical Society and vice-chair of Toront's Historical Board, karolyn teaches community history and primary research techniques at York University's Atkinson College. She is internationally recognized for her work in multiculturalism and anti-racism education using public history and public archaeology. Karolyn's volume I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad, was awarded the Governor General's Award for Non-fiction in 2007, the first book detailing the proud heritage of Canada's people of African descent to be so honoured.

Bryan Walls, C.M., O.Ont., a dental surgeon, historian, and

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