ARCHIVE COORDINATION AND RESEARCH
The Jackson Park Project Digital Archive is a not-for-profit educational association that collects, preserves, and interprets the history of the Emancipation Day celebrations that took place in Windsor, Ontario, with special emphasis on the period between 1930 to 1969, by the collection of artifacts, documents, oral histories, and other cultural objects, preserving them, and interpreting them to the public by means of virtual exhibitions, educational programs, lectures, public events, and publications, and to encourage others to collect, preserve, and interpret the history of these Emancipation Day celebrations and do everything worthwhile to carry out our purpose.
Culture Days 2022
Tonya Sutherland-Stewart hosted the event, "Savouring the Past: Exploring Food and Freedom," sharing research on the important role of food during these historical celebrations at the 2022 Ontario Culture Days Festival in Windsor, Ontario.