Webinar: Searching for Grey Township’s Black Pioneers

by Bob Montgomery

Huron County Museum's Curator of Engagement & Dialogue, Sinead Cox will be conducting a webinar next week about her continuing research into the James family’s journey from the United States to Nova Scotia to Ontario.

Cox says the webinar will shine a light on some of the things that were going on in Grey County as settlers started to arrive in the northeastern part of the county in the 1850's, 60's and 70's. Cox says the research started about a decade ago when they were doing an exhibit on migration stories about people who moved into the county, and this particular story is about people who ultimately left the county. The family was a black Canadian family from Nova Scotia that first settled in Peel Township, in Wellington County, and then moved to Huron County for about two decades before they moved to North Buxton and then to the United States.

The webinar will talk about some of the historically significant things that were happening at the time as well as why this particular family came to Grey County and stayed for two decades before moving on. Cox says the webinar is an opportunity for Huron County residents to learn a little bit about their own backyard and focusing on one particular family puts the humanity back in history.

The webinar is on Thursday, January 30th and people can sign up for the webinar by going to the events page on the Huron County Museum website and they'll find the link to sign up.