Digging for Toronto’s African Canadian Past

Photo Credit: Timothy Hudson

Saturday, April 2 | 10:30-11:15am
Curtis Lecture Hall – D

Tubman Associate Fellow Karolyn Smardz Frost presented a special lecture on behalf of the Centre for Student Success of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies entitled “Digging for Toronto’s African Canadian Past”.

Dr. Frost is an archaeologist, historian, educator and an award-winning author. Her biography of Thorton and Lucie Blackburn, “I’ve got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad”, won the 2007 Governor General’s Award for non-fiction. She was a top-ten finalist in the 2010 TV Ontario Big Ideas Best Lecturer Competition. At York she teaches primary research techniques for both African Canadian and Toronto history, and she is a research associate in the Harriet Tubman Institute where she manages of Tubman’s Underground Railroad project known as “Breaking the Chains”.

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