The North Star. The Promised Land. Canadians pride themselves on knowing that our country was a safe haven for people escaping enslavement from the United States.  However, what Canadians don't realize is that slavery existed here for over 200 years.  About 600 enslaved peopl eof African descent lived in Upper Canada (Ontario) up to 1834, and at least 80 lived in Niagara-on-the-Lake (NOTL).

2023 marks the 230th Anniversary of the passing of the first anti-slavery legislation in the British Empire, which was passed here in NOTL. And this is all thanks to a strong-willed Black woman named Chloe Cooley...

Co-Curators: Rochelle Bush, Natasha Henry-Dixon, Sarah Kaufman, and Shawna Butts.

The Museum has several virtual exhibitions on Google Arts & Culture including the following topics: The Attawandaron, Loyalists, Black History, Our Western Home, Temporary Residents, Irish, Mennonite and Recent Settlement, Queenston, St. Davids, Chautauqua, Virgil, Board of Ordnance Stones, Camp Kosciuszko, Painting NOTL, Freemasonry in NOTL, Niagara Historical Society’s 125th Anniversary, and Niagara Historical Society Plaques.