AMHERSTBURG FREEDOM MUSEUM

This history museum exhibits the evolution of Black North Americans from their African origins to their fundamental place in Western society today. Exhibits focus on the Underground Railroad, the Black Canadian Settlement, and achievements in terms of rights and recognition of peoples. In addition to the museum, there are two buildings on the site: the Taylor Log Cabin, a former slave house, and the Nazrey A.M.E. Church, a church recognized as a Canadian historic site. Don't miss: in February, when Black History Month is in full swing, the museum hosts all kinds of special activities. It's worth checking out the schedule on the museum's website, with many events taking place throughout the Windsor-Essex region throughout the month.

Free men. A relic of a bygone era, the underground railroad remains shrouded in mystery. How many slaves dreamed of it in the mid-19th century... Approximately 30,000 black servants and farm workers used the railroad to escape the servitude that crushed them in the United States and to come and settle on the fertile land here. Here and there, this reality is recalled. Remnants include the Josiah Henson Museum of African-Canadian History in Dresden and the Amherstburg Freedom Musem in Amherstburg. Other traces of this era can be found in Chatham, Windsor and Lakeshore.