Ever since he was a little kid, Aaron Parry “was extremely interested in Black history.”
In fact, the 22-year-old McMaster University graduate says he “was always talking to my aunties about our history and everything.”
Parry says it was “a dream come true” when he was approached last year — while he was still a student at McMaster — about a research opportunity, focusing on Black history related to Hamilton, Ont. The research would be instrumental for a new joint project by the Afro-Canadian Caribbean Association of Hamilton (ACCA) and the Hamilton Black History Council, with funding provided by the Hamilton-based Centre for Community Engaged
