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From: "Bryan Prince" <>
Subject: [GEN-EVENTS-L] Underground Railroad Conference, North Buxton, Ontario, Canada
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:53:49 -0400
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The Buxton National Historic Site & Museum

hosts the 6th Annual

U.S./Canadian

Underground Railroad

History and Genealogy Conference



Friday, August 29, 2002

B.M.E. Church, North Buxton, Ontario





8:00 - 9:00 Registration and welcome by Staff, Board Members and friends
of Buxton Museum.



9:00 - 9:05 Introductions and welcome



9:05 - 9:45 Afua Cooper -Henry and Mary Bibb - Abolitionists and editors of
"The Voice of the Fugitive" newspaper in Windsor in early 1850's.



Afua has completed a doctoral thesis in Canadian history at the University
of Toronto. Her dissertation is a biographical study of Henry Bibb, a 19th
century African American abolitionist who lived and worked in Ontario. She
is the co-author of The Underground Railroad: Last Stop Toronto as well as
We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian
Women's History which won the prestigious Joseph Brant award for history.
Her scholarly endeavours have made a vast contribution to gender studies in
African North American history and historiography. Afua teaches sociology at
Ryerson University.



9:45 -10:25 Patricia Neely- McCurdy - African Architectural Influences



Retired Professor and founder of Interior Design Program at St. Clair
College, Windsor. Patricia is the author of the thesis: The Identification
of Afro-American Architectural Characteristics in Housing in Raleigh
Townhsip and Southwestern Ontario in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. She is
author of the book: The Houses of Buxton: a legacy of African influences in
Architecture.



10:25 Break



11:00 - 11:50 Professor James Walker -"Black Loyalists in American
Revolution".



James W. St.G. Walker is Professor of History at the University of Waterloo,
where he has been teaching courses in African-Canadian history, race
relations and human rights since 1971. His publications include The Black
Loyalists (1976, 2nd ed. 1992), A History of Blacks in Canada: A Study Guide
for Teachers and Students (1980), "Race", Rights and the Law in the Supreme
Court of Canada (1997), "African Canadians", in An Encyclopedia of Canada's
Peoples (1999) and "Canada", in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African
and African-American Experience (1999). He has recently been awarded the
Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research for 2003-04.



12:00 - 1:10 Lunch



Browse vendor's tables of Historical Books,
Genealogical Resources, Crafts and Art-works.



1:10 - 1:15 Sharing major announcements from sites



1:15 - 2:00 Tony Burroughs - Jumping the Broom: African American and
African American Marriage Records



An internationally known genealogist, and author, who teaches genealogy at
Chicago State University. He lectures throughout the United States and
Canada on all aspects of genealogy. Author of Black Roots: A Beginners Guide
to Tracing the African American Family Tree.



2:00 - 2:20 Break



2:20 - 3:30 The Underground Railroad Story: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow



Donald Simpson
Author of the invaluable Ph.D. thesis Negroes in Ontario; from early times
to 1870. Don has lived and/or worked in 65 countries. His educational
activities at all levels include involvement in the establishment of teacher
training colleges, adult education institutes, the early planning for the
Community College system in Ontario, initiation of one of the first offices
for international programs at a Canadian University. He was one of the
early members of Canadian University Services Overseas (CUSO) and their
first regional director in West Africa


Orloff Miller

Dr. Miller is the Director of the Freedom Stations/Research Department at
the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. He is a historical
archaeologist, community historian, and preservation planner, and has
documented literally hundreds of archaeology sites, architectural resources,
and community memories in fourteen states and in Northern Ireland. Dr.
Miller is currently engaged in coordinating a nationwide network of
researchers working on the Underground Railroad, and linking that network
via digital archival data and curriculum materials.



James Hill
Midwest Regional Coordinator for U.S. National Parks Service National
Underground Railroad Network to Freedom



3:30 - 3:45 Thanks, Homecoming announcements and dismissal



Pre-registration is required as space is limited. Cost of Registration is
$($40 Cdn or $30 Us) to be determined in advance if payment is received by
August 15th. After that date cost will be $ (50 Cdn or $38 U.S (includes
lunch). Because of space limitations, registrations will be taken on a
"first come" basis. To avoid disappointment we urge everyone to register
early by mailing his or her name, address, email address (if applicable) and
cheque to:



Buxton National Historic Site & Museum



North Buxton
phone 519) 352-4799

Ontario, Canada,
fax (519) 352-8561

NOP 1Y0
email



Internet web page: http://www.buxtonmuseum.com


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