Recently filmmaker, Brandy Yanchyk, filmed in Southwestern Ontario for season three of her travel series Seeing Canada. You'll be able to watch the new episodes in 2022 on PBS stations, Create TV and on Amazon Prime Video.
In this new episode about Southwestern Ontario Brandy Yanchyk will be learning about Canada’s connection to the Underground Railway.
The Underground Railroad was not an actual railroad, but instead, a secret network of people who helped around 40,000 African Americans escape slavery from the United States.
The province of Ontario was the main terminus for the Underground Railway.
Brandy will be visiting museums and monuments and meeting descendants of the Freedom Seekers who used the Underground Railway to escape being enslaved in the United States.
Here are some photos of the filming at Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site in Dresden, Ontario.
At the site you will learn all about Josiah Henson who inspired the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
"After escaping to Upper Canada (now Ontario) from slavery in Maryland and Kentucky, Josiah Henson established himself as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, travelling the clandestine network of paths and safehouses in reverse. In his role as conductor, he rescued 118 enslaved people." - Ontario Heritage Trust https://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/.../prop.../uncle-toms-cabin
Thank you to the Curator, Steven Cook, and to Senior Archaeologist, Dena Doroszenko, for the wonderful interviews and your knowledge.