June 11, 2025 Virtual tour of Josiah Henson Museum
June 11 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
June 11th at 7:00 p.m. Zoom museum tour from the comfort of your home.
Josiah Henson Museum of African-Canadian History and the historical society is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom tour of the museum and ground.
Museum staff will take us on a walking tour of the historical buildings and tell us stories about what it meant to cross the border into Canada after a harrowing journey north. We will meet a descendant of some of these courageous Underground Railroad freedom seekers and learn about the early Black presence in Ontario.
An estimated 30,000 Black refugees from slavery in the United States fled to Canada along the silent tracks of the Underground Railroad – a network of people who aided these refugees as they followed the North Star to freedom. One of these freedom seekers was abolitionist, Underground Railroad conductor and former slave Josiah Henson.
Mr. Henson became known as Uncle Tom through his connection to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
This live-streaming experience incorporates a tour of the museum and two-hectare (five-acre) property, including the Interpretive Centre, three historical buildings – including the Josiah Henson House – a sawmill, two cemeteries and numerous artifacts that have been preserved as a legacy to those freedom seekers.
Topics discussed include:
- an overview of the trans-Atlantic slave trade
- slavery in Ontario
- a discussion on the life of Josiah Henson
- the Underground Railroad
- early Black settlements in Ontario