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Feb 25, 2022 · The Old Durham Road Black Pioneer Cemetery at the corner of Grey Road 14 and Durham Road B is now home to a monument displaying four headstones salvaged from a pile of rocks in 1990. The headstones are the remaining remnants of the mid-1800s Black settler community that according to census data once made up 12 per cent of the total Artemesia Township population.
Artemesia Township Concession 1 Lot 21 This burial ground of the area's original black settlers dates back to circa 1830 and was in use until the 1880s....
The 1851 census shows almost every 50-acre lot along the Durham Road was settled by a Black family with parents born in the USA, but most children born in Upper Canada. The 117 listed Black settlers represent 12% of the total 1851 Artemesia Township population. Over time, the Black settlement diminished.
Jul 3, 2021 · Norquay adds that the demolition and destruction of Black cemeteries and their history is a common issue in many Grey County and Ontario communities. She points to the Negro Creek Road in the Holland Township where, at some point when Highway 6 was widened, the Black cemetery connected to the Negro Creek settlement was bulldozed and built over.
Jun 2, 2021 · A decoration service is held annually at the cemetery and in 2015 a pavillion was opened there containing the four remaining headstones. Located just east of Priceville in Grey Highlands, the cemetery and the Old Durham Road School across the road from it mark what was once a vibrant and successful Black settlement from the late 1840s.
Feb 20, 2022 · Norquay, who is an associate professor in the faculty of education at York University in Toronto and president of the Old Durham Road Black Pioneer Cemetery committee in Priceville, suspects the ...
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Durham Road Pioneer Cemetery and the Old Durham Road School across the road from it are among the few remnants of a vibrant and successful Black settlement that existed near Priceville from the late 1840s. The fact that by the 1880s few of the original Black settlers remained, in no way diminishes their contributions as
