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Feb 13, 2021 · As original 'homesteaders' in Collingwood, the Sheffield's family history is as local as it gets. Ildia Sheffield and her husband Wilfred (grandparents to Carolynn and Sylvia) were cooks on several Great Lakes Ships during the 1930s and 40s, and they opened Sheffield's Cedar Inn Restaurant in Collingwood.
William Richard Sheffield Sr. and Lorraine Hollingbeck had 13 children. William, Lorraine and their children are also listed in the family tree which is further down on this page. Front: William Richard Sheffield Apr 10, 1855 - Jul 25, 1930. Lorraine Hollingbeck Jan 12, 1866 - Aug 22, 1959. William Richard Jr. Jan 20, 1882 - Aug 12, 1923.
Jan 5, 2024 · Carolynn and Sylvia’s grandparents, Ildia and Wilfred Sheffield, worked as cooks on several Great Lakes ships during the 1930s and 1940s. Later they established Sheffield’s Cedar Inn Restaurant in Collingwood. During segregation times, Black tourists travelling to the area would seek the safe accommodation available at Sheffield’s Cedar Inn.
Welcome to the Sheffield / Lowe Family Web Site About this site... This web site is dedicated to Franklin Richard Sheffied Sr. (1924-1994). Contained herein is a considerable amount of historical and current information about two families and their extended families. Specifically, the Sheffield family, who settled in Collingwood, Ontario in the mid 1800's, the L
- A Stop on The Underground Railroad
- Once-Thriving Black Community Gone
- Debate Over Priceville's Namesake
- Disturbing Revelations
- A History Not Known to Many
- Hiding Black Heritage
- 'Honour That History and Lift It Up'
- A Success For A Short Time
In the 19th century, Collingwood — like the town of Owen Sound, about 65 kilometres to the west — was a terminus for theUnderground Railroad. The secret network, made up of Black, white and Indigenous volunteers, helped between 30,000 and 40,000 formerly enslaved African Americans escape to Canada — where slavery remained legal until Aug. 1, 1834, ...
According to the census of 1851, every 50-acre lot along Durham Road in Priceville was settled by a Black family with parents born in the U.S. but most children born in Upper Canada, says Nancy Matthews, chair of the heritage committee of the municipality of Grey Highlands. The road was a key settlement route surveyed in the late 1840s that ran fro...
According to Black oral history, Priceville took its name from Colonel Price, a Black Loyalist soldier credited with having founded the settlement who was most likely a private but went by the first name Colonel. Price brought with him a group of Black settlers, but there's disagreement as to when exactly he arrived — and there have been questions ...
Most Canadians were introduced to the Priceville story in 2000, when the National Film Board documentarySpeakers for the Deadwas released. The film, by Black Canadian filmmakers David (Sudz) Sutherland and Jennifer Holness, shone a light on the desecration of Priceville's Black cemetery and revealed other inconvenient truths. In addition to the sto...
For Priceville residents Doug and Mary Harrison, watching Speakers for the Deadprovoked complicated feelings. On the one hand, they were disturbed to learn about the extent of their community's racist past, but they were also troubled at the way in which the village they loved was being maligned. After raising their family in the Greater Toronto Ar...
Over the decades, the erasure of Priceville's Black past led the remaining descendants of the Black settlers to deny or obscure their bloodlines and try to blend into the white community. Today, there is still a Black community in Priceville; it's just mostly white. "There are Black descendants in the Priceville area who aren't Black," said Norquay...
In the years since the release of Speakers for the Dead, Norquay has played an increasingly active role alongside other residents in trying to tell the story of Black Canadian settlers. "The film galvanized me," she said. "Speakers for the Deadis absolutely crucial to Canada's story." In the years following the film, an annual Black History Month e...
For Natasha Henry, president of the Ontario Black History Society, Priceville is an example that disrupts the myth of Canada as a welcoming refuge for Black people fleeing slavery. "Black settlers did find a measure of freedom," she said, "[but] there's a question as to whether it measured up with their vision of freedom." Harding-Davis says that a...
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Oct 16, 2022 · Hockey pro shares fond memories of Collingwood roots. People of Collingwood: Raymond Sheffield, 2022 inductee to the Collingwood Sports Hall of Fame. Raymond Sheffield is one of two individual 2022 inductees into the Collingwood Sports Hall of Fame. Contributed image. While he may now live halfway across the world, the little town of ...
