Services
Exhibits
Exhibits are available for rent on a weekly basis. Contact admin@blackhistorysociety.ca for a copy of our current brochure.
Presentations
Contact us for a speaker. The OBHS provides Black History presentations year round for schools, libraries, and corporations. Contact us and let us know about your upcoming event.
Tours
We provide guided bus tours throughout the Greater Toronto Area.
The OBHS provides a guide for a Black History Bus tour through the Greater Toronto Area. Contact us for details on our three hour tour through Toronto. We can also customize the timing, starting point and location of the tour to suit your needs.
You will need a chartered bus for the step on guide services. For smaller groups we offer walking tours (weather permitting) around the downtown core.
Contact us to schedule a tour for your group by emailing admin@blackhistorysociety.ca.
The Ontario Black History Society (OBHS) is a non-profit organization in Toronto, established in 1978 to preserve and promote the contributions of Black peoples in Ontario, and Canada at large.
The Society provides research materials for professional development, as well as exhibits and Black History Speaker presentations to schools, organizations and libraries to promote the understanding of Black heritage in Ontario.
The OBHS records and preserves oral history through taped interviews and contemporary profiles of living members of the community as well as profiles of historical figures who had played instrumental roles in shaping the history of Ontario over the last 200 years.
We have private collections on certain historical and contemporary figures available for research by the public. Please contact the office for further details.