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The Treaties

Ottawa negotiated in bad faith

Heather Menzies

Making a Scene

Experimental film is ready for its close-up

Keith Garebian

A More Sentimental Man

Michael Ondaatje’s late style

Moez Surani
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James W. St.G. Walker

James W. St.G. Walker is a professor of history at the University of Waterloo, where he specializes in the history of race relations and human rights. His publications include The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783–1870 (University of Toronto Press, 1992, 2nd ed.) and “Race,” Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court of Canada (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History and Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997).

Articles by
James W. St.G. Walker

A Vanished Community

A journalist turns to fiction to explore life and racial politics in Halifax’s Africville November 2006
The period from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s was one of the most exciting, and in many ways the most fruitful, in the history of Canadian race relations, and its epicentre was Halifax. For almost 200 years the African Nova Scotian population had lived in segregated, impoverished settlements across the province. Among them was…