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This event explores Black Canadian relationships to local waterways, through conversation on Black residents’ historic and contemporary connections to water, including sailing across oceans, canoeing along lakes, and swimming and skating across rivers. Drawing on her ongoing research examining Black access to outdoor recreation, Scott will speak of complicated Afro-Canadian relationships to waterways—as routes to damnation, freedom, or adventure.

This event will be held rain or shine, with indoor facilities (suitable for physical distancing) available in case of inclement weather. Physical distancing will be in place for the outdoor portions of the walk, and masks are required in all indoor spaces, including washrooms. The walk is a loop along the Waterfront Trail, starting and ending at the Small Arms Inspection Building. Trails are primarily paved, with some grassy sections.

About the Tour Facilitator

Jacqueline L. Scott is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto who researches the crossroads of race, outdoor recreation, and their broader contexts alongside environmental activism.

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About the Tour Facilitator

Black in the Waters: Race and the Waterways of Canada

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