Hello Everyone, please read this guest post from the Woodstock Museum NHS.
Join us at the Woodstock Museum with guest speaker and local historian Heather Rennalls exploring how Black History Month came to be founded. Learn about notable Black Canadians that helped make February an historically recognized month and see the Woodstock Museum’s permanent exhibit to learn about our own City’s Black History.
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Curious about the new Underground Railroad Sculpture in Ingersoll? Join us at Ingersoll Library Saturday, February 18, 2023 from 1-3PM
Meet local artist Duane Kumala-Thomas and discover the vision behind an Ingersoll art installation recognizing significant dates in town history.
Join local historian, Heather Rennalls and explorer her knowledge of Ingersoll’s Black history.
Ingersoll Town Councillor, Khadijah Haliru, will speak about her story from Nigeria to Brampton to Ingersoll.
Special Guests including: Town Councillor, Mike Bowman, Oxford Caribbean Canadian Association and more.
“Using the familiar theme of the underground railroad as a focal point, the sculpture aims to represent Ingersoll’s involvement in accepting, aiding and growing amongst a new and increasing black population in the 1800’s and beyond. The visual of train tracks breaking through the soil and springing up into the Ingersoll air will present viewers with the emphatic feeling of a journey to this place, where travellers came up for air, settled and planted new roots”.
please see this guest post from the Oxford County Branch of Ontario Ancestors.
Heather Rennalls will discuss the importance of Black History Month; the who, why and when Black History Month was designated both in the United States and here in Canada.
This meeting will be a virtual Zoom meeting on Monday, February 13, 2023 at 7pm.
All are welcome to attend. Pre-registration is required.
This guest post is brought to you by the Ingersoll 50+ Centre. Heather Rennalls will be presenting her research on Oxford County and its part in the Underground Railroad, via Zoom. Please see the above poster for registration and contact information.
