Events Archives | Our Black Heritage: Early Black Settlers of York-Sunbury Counties (New Brunswick) 1783-Present

Your Black Life DOES Matter!

This is a very wonderful and rare opportunity… Black Lives DO matter, and Black History is so very important. Welcome to this exhibit, and thank you for taking […]

We’re Still Just not There Yet

Nanny always told us to not care what people say about you. Be proud, be individualistic, and be happy with yourself, and that really what my generation, what […]

I’m With You

This exhibit is just a tiny tiny portion of what’s out there, so I hope that this can be the beginning of a learning experience… I just hope […]

Don’t be Afraid to Ask the Questions

People of all ages, of all colors, of all creeds… I would say the same thing that I was taught. Be yourself. Just BE yourself. And the truth […]

Make Your Ancestors Proud

I would say definitely… your lives matter. Your dreams matter. Your voices matter. I kinda liken the moment to the moment of the early 60s… of the Civil […]

I Wouldn’t Change a Lot in My Life

[When her son took her to Ottawa to see Barack Obama] I said to John, can you imagine this… I’m from the horse and buggy days, I’m in […]

Proud Descendants Serve in First World War

Illustrated here are Fredericton’s first volunteers for the No 2 Construction Battalion: Manzer Eatman, George H. Claybourn, James Hector, John Eatman, and Frank Claybourn. Transcription Fredericton’s First Members […]

Colonel Thomas Carleton, First Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick

In 1785 Robert Lawson and 11 others requested settlement land from the Governor of New Brunswick, Col. Thomas Carleton. It was February, and their request expressed concern for […]

Graduate of the University of New Brunswick

Mary Matilda Winslow graduated from the University of New Brunswick in 1905, with a bachelor’s degree in Classics. She graduated top of her class, winning the Montgomery-Campbell Prize for […]

The Long Walk to Sierra Leone

Sierra Leona held the hope for many of freedom from the broken promises and harsh, humiliating treatment they received in New Brunswick. Any Black settler wishing to emigrated […]

Jack Paterson

“…There he found a barrack or hovel, filled with hay, belonging to Jack Patterson [sic], a mullato…” – Sheriff William Bates, Kingston, 1814 When Nathaniel Lad and eight […]

Lucy (Hammond) Claybourn

“Lucy Hammond was very beautiful, intelligent, and hard working.” – GG Copeland, Barkers Point, 1981 Lucy Hammond (1812 – 1895) was born enslaved to Gabriel DeVeber, who lived […]