Grey County council is supporting Grey Highlands in applying to have Old Durham Road Black Pioneer Cemetery declared a national historic site of Black.
The story of John “Daddy” Hall has made it to prime time, a place the former Owen Sound resident has long deserved to be according to the director of a new…
There’s a renewed momentum growing in Grey Highlands to ensure the history of an early Black pioneer community at Priceville is remembered and celebrated with…
There’s a renewed momentum growing in Grey Highlands to ensure the history of an early Black pioneer community at Priceville is remembered and celebrated with…
The village of Priceville in southwestern Ontario was home to a vibrant Black community in the 1850s, but it had all but disappeared by the 1880s. Historians and descendants are trying to revive that history, starting with restoring the Black cemetery that was plowed over close to a century ago.