10:30 a.m. Crossing Point - site where Josiah Henson (Uncle Tom character in Harriet Beecher Stowe book)
Will travel by an area where many Blacks lived when they came to Canada as well as your guide for the day. I will tell the stories while driving through this area.
11:00 a.m Bertie Hall – site of alleged safe house also home to a $4 million dollar doll house collection
11:30 a.m. Coloured Cemetery – many fugitive slaves buried here as well as the slave that Lezlie is a descendant of
12:00 p.m Lunch in Niagara Falls on your own; will drop you off at falls
1:30 p.m BME Church – Nat Dett – view a movie regarding the History of Blacks in Ontario; also will have a little talk by the curator of this church and visit the Norval Johnson Library
2:30 p.m. Richard Pierpoint plaque – he was a slave from Senegal that lived in Niagara making huge contributions to this area; and Anthony Burns who came to Canada to truly taste freedom after being recaptured during the Fugitive Slave Act
3:00 p.m. BME Church – Salem Chapel – let the curator of this church that Harriet Tubman attended tell all the details of this wonderful church
3:45 p.m Port Dalhousie Park – former site of the Emancipation Day celebration picnic that in its day would draw between 5,000 and 6,000 Blacks from all over
4:30 p.m. Niagara-on-the-Lake (first capital of Canada) sites - Parliament Oak School, Wm Stewart Homestead, Trish Romance house, Fort Mississauga, and Negro Burial Ground; sites to be explained when we visit them
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Lezlie Harper-Wells
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