All Stories: Ready to explore?
Human rights stories are all around us. We explore contemporary and historic human rights stories, from Canada and around the world.
Stories listing
The story of Africville
By Matthew McRae
If you’ve never heard of Africville, you’re not alone. This small Black community was demolished by the City of Halifax in the 1960s. Its residents have been fighting for justice ever since.
Approaching the human rights stories of Indigenous peoples
By Karine Duhamel
This article focuses on the creation and development of exhibition content exploring the human rights stories of Indigenous people in this country. To tell these stories, the Museum engaged with communities and individuals in a process of truth‐telling.
The nuts and bolts of reconciliation
By Karine Duhamel
As a child, I often visited museums. I was lucky to be able to travel with my family, and to visit interpretive spaces across the country.
Why reconciliation? Why now?
By Karine Duhamel
Since the publication of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s final report in 2015, more and more Canadians seem focused on the idea of reconciliation.
A Yiddish poem from the Holocaust
A single poem reminds us that even in the midst of atrocity, human dignity persists.
Black sleeping car porters
By Travis Tomchuk
Black men employed as sleeping car porters in Canada from the late nineteenth century until the mid‐1950s experienced racial discrimination and exploitation on the job.
Reconciliation: A movement of hope or a movement of guilt?
By Karine Duhamel
In Why reconciliation? Why now? I talked about the idea of reconciliation as an invitation to a new and shared future and as a pathway towards a good life, both for Indigenous people and for other Canadians.
