Local Sites and Museums
Local Sites and Museums
- Amherstburg Freedom Museum
- Learn more about Amherstburg’s Underground Railroad history and the settlement of freedom seekers in the area through the many collections, exhibits, archival resources, and family histories curated by the Amherstburg Freedom Museum.
- Buxton National Historic Site and Museum
- This museum and historical site offer extensive exhibits, collections, family histories, and archival materials curated to illuminate the rich history of Black settlement and life in Buxton, Ontario.
- Chatham-Kent Black Historical Society's Black Mecca Museum
- This museum provides resources for visitors, researchers, and educators, including a variety of walking tours, educational materials, archival resources, and family genealogies. Complementing these offerings is the museum's extensive collection of exhibits and artifacts related to the history of Black settlement and life in Chatham-Kent.
- John Freeman Walls Historic Site and Underground Railroad Museum
- This historic site preserves the homestead of freedom seeker John Freeman Walls and his family. The museum offers walking tours related to the Underground Railroad, the Walls family, and Black settlement in Puce, Ontario.
- Josiah Henson Museum of African-Canadian History
- Preserving the home of abolitionist Josiah Henson, this site provides numerous walking tours of the Dawn Settlement and exhibits reflecting early Black life in the province and the history of the Underground Railroad in Dresden, Ontario.
Black History Walking Tours and Mapping Projects
- Walking Tour of Historic Sandwich
- Learn more about Windsor's Underground Railroad history and the freedom seekers who arrived here on this walking tour of historic Sandwich Town.
- Walking Tour of the McDougall Street Corridor
- This walking tour takes you to the McDougall Street neighbourhood, a once dynamic and mostly self-sufficient Black community located in the metropolitan core of Windsor.
- Walking Tours of Chatham
- The Chatham Kent Black Historical Society offers guided walking tours of the Black Mecca Museum and the surrounding neighbourhood, including the BME Freedom Park on the site of the first British Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada.
- Beyond the Underground Railroad: A History of Black Settlement in Nineteenth-Century Amherstburg
- Use this map of Amherstburg's historic Black settlement to create your own walking tour.