Amherstburg Freedom Museum

Amherstburg Freedom Museum The museum is a curated archive that preserves and shares Amherstburg's stories of the Underground Railroad and the solidarity it took to make it possible.
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The location of the Museum is key; Amherstburg meant freedom, as the Canadian destination for many Blacks escaping slavery in the United States. Also included in the museum complex are Nazrey A.M.E. Church- national historic site and stop on the Underground Railroad, and the Taylor Log Cabin - home of a formerly enslave family. Admission:
$7.50 Adult
$6.50 Senior/Student
$30.00 Family of five

Please join us for the Amherstburg Freedom Museum’s Annual Community Meeting on Saturday, June 27th at 12:30 pm, 277 Kin...
06/17/2026

Please join us for the Amherstburg Freedom Museum’s Annual Community Meeting on Saturday, June 27th at 12:30 pm, 277 King Street in Amherstburg. Light refreshments will be available. Free to attend! Doors open at 12:00 pm.

This afternoon at the Amherstburg Freedom Museum, we were delighted to host a friendly and inquisitive group of visitors...
06/16/2026

This afternoon at the Amherstburg Freedom Museum, we were delighted to host a friendly and inquisitive group of visitors exploring our region through Travac Tours (Ottawa, Ontario.) Thanks so much for paying our museum a visit... and for the really excellent questions!

We were pleased to host students from Marlborough Public School today! Thanks so much for joining us.
06/16/2026

We were pleased to host students from Marlborough Public School today! Thanks so much for joining us.

June 16-17, 1853 , the General Convention for the Improvement of the Colored Inhabitants of Canada was held at First B...
06/16/2026

June 16-17, 1853 , the General Convention for the Improvement of the Colored Inhabitants of Canada was held at First Baptist Church Amherstburg. The first order of business was electing Josiah Henson the Chair and James Theodore Holly the Secretary. The delegates in attendance were as follows: AMHERSTBURG Levi Foster, J.W. Underwood, James Morton, H. W. Brown, R. Warren, P. J. Jackson, Irvin Howard, George Young, J. Wilson, M. Stephens, J. H. Simpson; ANDERDON Henry Johnson; BUXTON Isaac Brown; CHATHAM H. Hawkins, W. Carter, S.B. Needham, Andrew Smith, M. F. Baily; COLCHESTER Wm. Ruth, W. Fisher; DRESDEN J. Henson, G. Cary; SANDWICH Lewis Clark, C. Freeman, H. Bibb, I. Campbell, J.T. Holly; DETROIT James Haley; MADI5ON IND. E. D. Claybrook, Gilbert West; CLEVELAND Stephen Griffin; OBERLIN R. Van Rankin; URBANA Jer. Thomas. View the minutes at https://ow.ly/ORIc50Wb6RF

June 15, 1789 Josiah Henson was born in Maryland. Henson escaped enslavement with his wife and four children, arriving...
06/15/2026

June 15, 1789 Josiah Henson was born in Maryland. Henson escaped enslavement with his wife and four children, arriving in Upper Canada on October 28, 1830. Henson was a driving force behind the establishment of the Dawn Settlement in Dresden, Ontario, and according to Henson’s autobiography, during the Upper Canada Rebellion, he was Captain of the 2nd Essex Company of Coloured Volunteers which assisted in defending Fort Malden (in Amherstburg) between Christmas 1837 and May 1838 and successfully captured the Rebel's Schooner Anne.

Years later in 1853, Black residents of the US and Canada met in Amherstburg for a General Convention. In attendance was Josiah Henson, who was elected chairman. Delegates discussed issues including agriculture, temperance, and education. You can read the minutes of the Convention here https://omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/619

Attention, golfers! The Amherstburg Freedom Museum Walter Perry Emancipation Charity Golf Classic is happening Saturday,...
06/15/2026

Attention, golfers! The Amherstburg Freedom Museum Walter Perry Emancipation Charity Golf Classic is happening Saturday, August 8th at Coachwood Golf & Country Club. Tickets are $150 including golf with cart and a meal. Not a golfer but still interested in supporting the museum? You can buy a $30 ticket to join us for the meal in the clubhouse afterward. To purchase either, please visit https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/2026-walter-perry-emancipation-golf-classic

Thanks to everyone who joined us for Ribs & Ragtime 2026, a sold out event! Thanks to the talented Christian Vegh Band f...
06/14/2026

Thanks to everyone who joined us for Ribs & Ragtime 2026, a sold out event! Thanks to the talented Christian Vegh Band for entertaining our audience. Special thanks to our silent auction donors and our amazing brigade of event volunteers (not all pictured here!) Events like these enable the Amherstburg Freedom Museum to continue sharing Black history and universal inspiration.

On June 12, 1923 Dr. William Kenneth Rock was born in Windsor. Following his time at Patterson Collegiate, he attended f...
06/13/2026

On June 12, 1923 Dr. William Kenneth Rock was born in Windsor. Following his time at Patterson Collegiate, he attended flight school at the No. 9 Elementary Flight Training School in St. Catharines, Ontario, and No. 8 Service Flying Training School in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, earning his wings in June 1944. He served two years as a Pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1943 to 1945 and was commissioned as an Officer.

A few years later, in 1951, he graduated from medical school in Toronto and completed his internship at Hotel Dieu Hospital in Windsor. The following year, in 1952, Dr. Rock opened his own office in Windsor, later becoming the Coroner for the City of Windsor.

Thanks to everyone who has purchased tickets to Ribs & Ragtime 2026. Event sales have ended! We are looking forward to w...
06/12/2026

Thanks to everyone who has purchased tickets to Ribs & Ragtime 2026. Event sales have ended! We are looking forward to welcoming an enthusiastic crowd of 180 to this favourite annual springtime gathering on the beautiful museum grounds. If you are joining us, you can look forward to delicious food, fellowship, 50/50 and silent auction opportunities, and great music across genres by the Christian Vegh Band! Every ticket includes free admission to the museum as well, so don’t miss the chance to seek out some Black history for universal inspiration while you’re onsite.

“Freedom has never been free…I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if th...
06/12/2026

“Freedom has never been free…I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.” – Medgar Evers

June 12th, 1963, Medgar Evers was assassinated in the driveway of the Evers family home in Jackson, Mississippi. Born July 2nd, 1925 in Decatur, Mississippi, Evers had become the NAACP’s first field secretary in Mississippi in 1954. There, he had recruited members and organized voter registration drives as well as economic boycotts in the face of constant death threats.

After his assassination, the Second World War veteran was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery. He was posthumously awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal on July 4, 1963. While his murderer was not successfully convicted until 1994, Evers' assassination received national attention and increased support for the legislation that would become the Civil Rights Act of 1964. His widow, Myrlie, created what is now known as the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute in Jackson, Mississippi. In 2017, President Barack Obama designated the Evers home a national historic landmark and in 2019, it became a National Monument.

on July 28th, 1963, just weeks after her husband’s untimely death, the courageous and determined Myrlie Evers spoke to the thousands gathered at Windsor, Ontario's Emancipation Celebration in Jackson Park? Mrs. Evers never gave up the fight to see justice for her husband's murder, and three decades later the assassin was convicted and sent to prison.

Address

277 King Street
Amherstburg, ON
N9V2C7

Opening Hours

Tuesday 12pm - 5pm
Wednesday 12pm - 5pm
Thursday 12pm - 5pm
Friday 12pm - 5pm
Saturday 1pm - 5pm
Sunday 1pm - 5pm

Telephone

+1.5197365433

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