Niagara's black history advocate to get province's highest honour
By QMI Agency
NIAGARA FALLS — Wilma Morrison, a lifelong promoter of Niagara's Black history has been named to the Order of Ontario, the highest civilian honour the province of Ontario bestows on residents of the province. Lt-Gov. David Onley is scheduled to invest the 2011 inductees to the order Jan. 27.
For years, Morrison has tirelessly educated people about Niagara's role in the Underground Railroad that allowed American slaves in the 1800s a chance to escape and start a new life in Canada.
Morrison has been the driving force behind the Norval Johnson Library on Peer St. and the restored British Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 2008, she received the Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award, recognizing her years of public education about Black history.
"I've always wanted to celebrate our ancestors, because they went through unspeakable horror to make sure that things were better for me. "It's my responsibility to remind our young people of the story," she said in 2008 when she received that award.
