There were several people who played significant roles in trailblazing the Black press in Canadian history.
As we heard on the last episode of the 519 Podcast, those included Henry and Mary Bibb.
But the subject of this episode was very unique in what she brought to the table.
In a time when breaking through the barriers of racism was already near impossible, Mary Ann Shadd Cary had to deal with a historically terrible era of sexism. Despite it all, she became the first Black woman to open, own, and run a newspaper.
This was a significant achievement. But the amazing part is, this was just one of the things she was able to accomplish in her lifetime. It was essentially a single line in a resume that grew for decades, with recognitions and contributions to the abolition movement, to educating settlers in Canada, to getting a law degree, to helping the Union in the American Civil War.
She was recognized as a Person of National Historic Significance by the Government of Canada in 1994.
On this episode of the 519 Podcast, we tell her story.
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The Great Northeast Blackout - 20 years later
A 519 Campfire Story: The Gordon House Haunting
Ontario’s Adoption Search Angel
The Secrets of Radar and the Second World War
The Lambeth Poisoner
Confessions of a Killer: Elizabeth Wettlaufer
The Haunting of the Park House Museum
Thousands Infected: the Walkerton Water Crisis
519 Unsolved: the disappearance of Lois Hanna
519 Unsolved: the death of Karen Caughlin
The KKK in London
The St. Patrick’s Day Riot of 2012
Printing for Freedom
133 Dead: Ontario’s Tragic Record Breaking Year
Ontario’s Jack the Ripper Scare
Unraveling a Conspiracy: The 1966 UFO Sighting in Sarnia
A long wait for justice: the murder of Ljubica Topic
Surviving the EMDC
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