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Feb 7, 2006 · They helped African Americans escape from enslavement in the American South to free Northern states or to Canada. The Underground Railroad was the largest anti-slavery freedom movement in North America. It brought between 30,000 and 40,000 fugitives to British North America (now Canada).
- John Freeman Walls Underground Railroad Museum. Lakeshore, Ontario. (Image courtesy of Anna Davis Walls/John Freeman Walls Historic Site and Underground Railroad Museum Log Cabin)
- The Josiah Henson Museum of African-Canadian History. Dresden, Ontario. Josiah Henson and his family escaped from slavery in 1830. He started a community where Black settlers could share their skills and help each other.
- Black Loyalist Heritage Centre. Birchtown, Nova Scotia. Black settlers from both French and English backgrounds settled in places like Birchtown and Annapolis Royal in Nova Scotia.
- Buxton National Historic Site. Chatham, Ontario. Class photo taken in front of the only school in Canada built (1861) by fugitive enslaved people at the Elgin Settlement in Buxton, Ontario.
the cultural landscape continues as a living memorial to its founders and to the courage of every Underground Railroad refugee who took their life in their hands and chose Canada as their home.
19 hours ago · Some came entirely alone and unaided; others found their way to Canada with the help of a clandestine network of “conductors” and “stations” called the “Underground Railroad.” Approximately 30,000 men, women and children fled north to freedom, settling from the Maritimes as far west as the Manitoba border.
Mar 27, 2023 · This uncomplicated telling of history allows Canadians to hold their country up as a historical champion of human rights and use Underground Railroad communities to prove a track record of equality in Canada that misrepresents the historical record.
Apr 19, 2011 · Citizens of what soon became Canada were long involved in aiding fugitive slaves escape slave-holding southern states via the Underground Railroad. In the mid-1800s, a hidden network of men and women, white and black, worked with escaped slaves to help them to freedom in the northern U.S. and Canada.
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The Underground Railroad was an early 1800s to 1865 secret network of financial, spiritual, and material aid for formerly enslaved people on their path from plantations in the American South to freedom in Canada.
