Niagara Bound Tours

11/19/2024

Brigadier General Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman is now a General Tubman. Last week became recognized as a one star General. Moving forward we now call her Brigadier General Harriet Tubman !

11/19/2024

If coming to Toronto, you will love this feel good musical!

To the ones who have come from away, ! 📍🌎

📷 : Evan Zimmerman for Murphy Made

11/17/2024

I think they should have renamed since some thought it was necessary (it wasn't) Yonge-Dundas Square, Herb Carnegie Square! Such a great man. Would have been an awesome form of rembrance.

A trailblazer in hockey & community-building creating one of the first hockey schools in Canada, the Future ACES Creed & Foundation providing educational programs & bursaries. Recipient the Order of Canada and countless other honours, Herb Carnegie will be inducted in one week.

Join the Celebration bit.ly/Induction2022Tix

11/17/2024

Tis the season! Winter Festival of Lights have begun at Niagara Falls this evening. Runs until January 5, 2025.

11/12/2024

Harriet Tubman is now a General Tubman. Last week became recognized as a one star General. Moving forward we now call her Brigadier General Harriet Tubman !

11/11/2024

An ancestral cousin of mine that fought in World War 1. He was from Fort Erie. First protected the Welland Canal. Then went to England. Was injured in battle. Took a year to recover. He bravely stayed for another battle in France. He is buried there. He is only one of six Blacks given the Medal of Courage. His courage is respectfully recorded. I am so proud of this man who is a part of my family tree. I remember him on this Remembrance Day!

11/09/2024

Did you know..

We were taught the Lewis & Clark expedition in school.We were not taught there was a Black man who played a major role in the success of that expedition! His name was York. He was born to enslaved parents, and served as William Clark''s valet from boyhood. As a young teen he served as a trusted member of the expedition. His skills as a tracker/hunter credited with making it possible for the group to reach the Pacific Ocean, despite extreme weather and dangerous overland conditions. York was in fact lauded for his skills: scouting, hunting, field medicine, finding food/water and performing much of the heavy lifting.Lewis noted in his journal that York saved him from certain death in the grip of a grizzly bear during the expedition. Native Nations treated York with great respect, and he played a key role in diplomatic talks between Tribal leaders and whites in his group...due to his dark skin and open attitude. When the expedition returned, every member received money and land for their services...except York. York asked William Clark for his freedom based upon hisleadership during the expedition. Clark refused. York pleaded to be reunited with his wife, who was enslaved in Louisville. He even offered to work in Louisville and send Clark all of his earnings. Clark still refused, and in 1811 sold York to a brutal white man, who kept him enslaved under harsh conditions until 1816. There is nothing written about York after 1816. Today we must honor York, a Black man who made a difference in US history, but has been ignored in US history books.
York statue - Louisville, KY

11/08/2024

On my way to a farewell event for a tourism colleague I stopped off here. By coincidence my tour was about A.Y. Jackson, the only of the Group of Seven to see active duty during WW1. With Rembrance Day happening on Monday this was so appropriate.
UPDATE: How could I forget this connection. I was in that gallery wondering around with the brother of Doug Kirkland the famous photographer that photographed Marilyn Monroe and many others. We are all from Fort Erie. Met by chance. So cool!

11/01/2024

Did you know...
We have amazing sites throughout Ontario to learn about Black history.

10/28/2024

Josiah Henson known as the character used in the book Uncle Tom's Cabin certainly lived up to his words. Makes me proud to be a Black Canadian. Thank you Josiah Henson on the anniversary of your arrival into the country that would become Canada on this day, October 28, 1830. I also take this time to acknowledge Harriet Beecher Stowe. She was the woman that wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. It raised the consciousness of people around the world about slavery. More anti-slave protests, more abolitionists made themselves available to help during this tragic time.
As Josiah Henson was a wonderful, loving and faith based man so was Uncle Tom.

"It was the 28th of October, 1830, in the morning, when my feet first touched the Canada shore." "I felt streams of emotion running down in electric courses from head to foot. "Yes," said I; "I'll use my freedom well; I'll give my soul to God."" - Josiah Henson