The Joy of Connection Part 3 June 2020 Until the last quarter century, most of early black history in Niagara on the Lake was buried in obscure documents or barely acknowledged by one of our town’s foremost historians, William Kirby….
Read MoreThe Niagara on the Lake Local, June 22 https://notllocal.com/2020/06/25/farm-worker-struggles-to-get-permanent-resident-status/ It never gets easier. There is a price to be paid for families that are separated for eight months of the year. Men and women working here on the temporary…
Read MoreThere has been much in the news lately regarding the systemic racism which most of us who have grown up in a white dominated culture have been blissfully unaware of, yet benefited from. We have a lot to process, especially…
Read MoreThis year marks a 15 year anniversary celebrating treasured friendships with our Jamaican neighbours. It was in spring 2005 that I was invited to assist with the music at a little church service for Caribbean farm workers. The CWOP …
Read More