Media coverage

Browse recent coverage on the early Black settlement at Negro Creek, and our efforts to preserve its history.

  • Tracing the History of Black Settlement in Negro Creek

    TVO - Watch an enlightening discussion with two passionate community organizers as they delve into the vital efforts to preserve the Negro Creek Road sign and the profound significance of Black heritage in rural Ontario.

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  • Building Grey County

    Boomer Magazine – Black Citizens Helped Shape the Region’s Early Settlement

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  • Community Close-Up: Negro Creek

    Rogers TV – Host Sharen Kelley interviews genealogist. researcher and descendant Nancy Lee on the Black settlement at Negro Creek.

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  • Negro Creek Road sign stolen second time in under a month

    February 22, 2022

    Collingwood Today - Police are investigating the theft of multiple road signs from the area overnight on Feb. 19 to 20

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  • ‘They were people’: Work ongoing to keep Negro Creek history alive

    Feburary 21, 2022

    Collingwood Today - On eve of Black History Month, street sign for controversially named road was again vandalized, the latest in a years-long battle to keep the more-than-170-year-old name and heritage of the area going.

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  • Descendants of Black communities in Ontario's Grey County preserve history despite adversity

    February 10, 2022

    CBC London - Road sign marking historic Black community stolen last month.

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  • Descendant of Black settlers in Ontario county is fed up with theft, vandalism of road sign

    CBC London - 'If the sign was taken down, it's erasing history,' says resident who runs Black history museum.

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