Canadian Heritage committee  I would hope there might be support for not necessarily standing committee meetings, but other opportunities for African Canadian heritage workers to gather to maybe share some of this information and possibly work out some of the material that you have outlined. Of course, my o

Canadian Heritage committee  If I can just add, at the point when we created our business plan, it was around the time that a black church might have been available for us to have used, but processes were such that it wasn't possible. I also want to mention that it isn't just the black community that think

Canadian Heritage committee  The Mathieu Da Costa challenge was a national essay and art contest. It relied on traditional media for students to prepare a tight hard-copy document and/or actual artwork that would be submitted. With the advent of social media, and it being easy to work with, with desktop pub

Canadian Heritage committee  How did we participate?

Canadian Heritage committee  Do you mean now or in the past?

Canadian Heritage committee  In the future, okay. Well, right now we already use social media to let people know about a number of things. It's a way of providing information or promoting things, such as a scholarship we're offering in cooperation with a corporate sponsor. Again, social media could be that

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, that would be the way to advertise, because otherwise there's a cost.

Canadian Heritage committee  If I'm understanding you correctly, we help promote particular personalities in a number of ways. First of all, we have a website, which has a series of themes to work with information and photographs that are already posted on our website. We also use Facebook; I'm the webma

Canadian Heritage committee  Of course, it should be, but it hasn't. If you continue to do the same thing over and over again, you're going to get the same thing. What is that expression?

Canadian Heritage committee  It hasn't happened. Is it going to happen? It's unlikely, so that's part of the reason for the advocacy, and the interest is still there because if we don't make that claim and make sure it happens, it isn't going to happen. It hasn't happened in 400 years.

Canadian Heritage committee  I wasn't adopted.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think that black people do care about their genealogy. I think they do care about their history.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think it's easier for some people to be able to trace their ancestry than it is for others. I have encountered people coming from different parts of the world, and they don't even know what their exact birth date is. Clearly they are challenged further in just trying to identif

Canadian Heritage committee  I understood you correctly; I think the priorities would include.... First, let me go back to say that black is not a colour; it's an ideology. And I think that black is synonymous with African Canadians. So do people see themselves as African Canadian or black? I don't know.

Canadian Heritage committee  The need for a museum is well documented. But no matter what the model for a centre or museum of African Canadian history is, at the end of the day it would be a place where people can come, learning can take place, and a foundation of memory can be laid. Between now and 2017, we