The story of Ontario, previously called Upper Canada, is one you might be familiar with.
It often describes how European settlers, made up mostly of United Empire Loyalists, left the United States after the chaos of the American Revolution to form settlements along the St. Lawrence River in the late 1790s.
But there’s a lesser known group that some are now trying to highlight: the enslaved people the white settlers brought with them.
“Part of our history is really hidden,” said Natasha Henry-Dixon, an assistant professor of African Canadian history at York University.
Through her research, Henry-Dixon has discovered there were more than 600 Black people who were
