On the Essex Ontario You Tube channel, we hosted two guest speakers this week, Elise Harding-Davis and Chris Carter.
Chris Carter will deliver a talk on The Lost Communities of Essex based on his book of local heritage driving tours. These lost communities formed around access to railways or where prominent local families built a home, anchors which have since disappeared but whose impacts remain visible to those who look a bit closer.
(52) Chris Carter presents “The Lost Communities of Essex” – YouTube
Elise Harding- Davis will discuss Essex County’s Lost Black Cemeteries and guide viewers to explore 13 African Canadian cemeteries in Essex County. Her talk will help tell the tales of Black pioneers, freedom fighters, and escaped slaves, all of whom become part of the “Black thread in the Canadian tapestry.”
St. Marks Cemetery in Colchester contains the remains of early Black Pioneers dating back to the early 1800’s.
(52) Elise Harding-Davis presents “Essex County’s Lost Black Cemeteries” – YouTube
