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Words to End All Wars: Correspondence During the Great War
 June 28, 2009 – June 6, 2010 Nearly a century ago, letter writing was the most popular form of correspondence. It was the most effective way to communicate over distances. In war, the voices of those who fight on the frontline, command from an army headquarter or recover in a hospital are often isolated from those who remain at home. This exhibition will explore the words of the First World War using memoirs, diaries, letters, songs, poems and art. Through these words, diverse voices will emerge. “Threads of Remembrance,” part of the World of Threads Festival, is a collection of First World War postcards, along with museum artifacts and objects on loan from our community will tell the very human story of Oakville’s involvement in the Great War. Hear the voices of the First World War as they tell their stories and interpret the harrowing events that surrounded them. This event is part of the Hometown Stories: Oakville Memories of War project.
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Freedom, Opportunity & Family: Oakville's Black History
“Freedom, Opportunity and Family: Oakville’s Black History” will open to the public on February 13th. The exhibition presents many stories of African-American families who settled in Oakville and were important to the development of our community. The story of the Johnson family is one of many compelling accounts of an African American family who found freedom in Oakville in the nineteenth-century. On February 6, 1855, Branson Johnson, a freeborn African-American man, registered his free status in the Howard County, Maryland court.
Featured in the exhibition will be the parchment Certificate of Freedom Branson Johnson obtained that February day, along with the pocket watch in which he carried his certificate for many years. Passed down from one generation to the next, the certificate shows how subsequent generations defined and preserved evidence of freedom.
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The Underground Railroad - Next Stop, Freedom!
This bilingual exhibition focuses on urban settlement in mid-19th-century Toronto, through the eyes of Deborah Brown and her husband, Perry, who heroically fled to freedom from an oppressed life of slavery in Maryland. Discover how Oakville played a role. Exhibition created by Parks Canada in partnership with the Ontario Black History Society and the ROM.
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