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And it's the story of every immigrant that's come to this country to escape adversity."īachiu, the local filmmaker, has spent years researching the cemetery and has chronicled its history in his series Canfield Roots. Spencer Martin, another descendant of those buried in the cemetery, says entering the graveyard evokes "a feeling of reverence of what people have gone through to get here. Metcalfe says lawyers for everyone involved are working out that easement and he expects the cleanup to begin in the spring.
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That means persuading an adjacent landowner, plus the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, to surrender enough land to the county to build a path or roadway to the cemetery from the highway, about 500 metres away. "Often, sadly, because of racism, because of ignorance, because of migration, the presence of people of African descent in certain communities is completely erased," she said, noting that cemeteries "often provide the only tangible evidence of their living there. Rosemary Sadlier, a Toronto-based historian and former president of the Ontario Black History Society, says the rehabilitation work can't come soon enough.
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Sylvia Weaver, a local historian and author, says at least a dozen people are buried in the cemetery, which is near Canfield in Haldimand County - including Carrie Barnes, whose renowned aunt Harriet Tubman helped slaves escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad in the 1800s. No one's been buried there since the 1940s, and the 500-square-metre site is now littered with overturned tombstones, unkempt brush, dead trees and tangles of old fence wire. People who escaped slavery in the United States are buried at the Street-Barnes Cemetery, tucked away in a copse of trees in the middle of a field.
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(Mike Smee/CBC - image credit)Īn abandoned cemetery southeast of Hamilton which is the final resting place for Black settlers - including the niece of a famed anti-slavery icon - will soon be restored thanks to some local volunteers and county councillors. Aileen Duncan stands near the entrance to the abandoned cemetery where several of her ancestors are buried.