Made for the Luminato Festival, the piece is meant as both a memorial to Africans lost to the slave trade and a monument to the history of Canada’s first Black settlers.
1944 – 2022 She was born Alexa Ann Shaw in Ottawa on August 11, 1944. She became Alexa McDonough when she married the late Peter McDonough in Halifax in 1966.
Toxic Legacy: The Fight to End Environmental Racism in Canada. To view the videos that accompany this article, click here. When industrial warning sirens blare through Chemical Valley, Arnold Norman Yellowman hears the neighbourhood dogs howling in this small.