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Title: 2nd Carnival Montreal 75
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring Carifesta crowds and performers. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: “This footage was shot in the mid-1970s and marks one of the first Montreal Caribbean Carnival celebrations in the city. Heather’s parents, Richard and Althea Seaman, brought her and her siblings, Hazel and Herbert, to see their first few parades as spectators. In later years, the family was occasionally involved as participants – whether helping to create costumes, build floats or march in the annual parade. The summer event was launched to celebrate and showcase the Caribbean culture and heritage of immigrants, who were born on one of the diverse islands or those who had ancestry there. While Toronto started their Caribbean Carnival – Caribana - in 1967 as a tribute to Canada’s centennial celebrations, Montrealers held their first Carifiesta parade and festival in 1975.”
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(01)
Date: [1975 or 1976]
Identifier: 2019-067/001(01)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153228

Title: Marchant family videos : 3 J.P Birthday 1 year Old 1976 : Part 3 of 4
Description: A video clip recording from 1976 to 1978 consists of several everyday moments including children playing in the snow during winter and by the pool during the summer, parties and celebrations, a trip to Niagara Falls, and a tour of a house for sale. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "These clips show episodes from Jean-Pierre Marchant’s childhood in the mid-1970s Montreal. His parents were immigrants, recently arrived from Argentina and Chile. Throughout Jean-Pierre’s childhood, they documented the family’s life with a Super 8 camera (and would later switch to video). These clips depict him as a playful child, trips, and well-attended birthday parties. Looking back, Jean-Pierre recognizes that these parties were a big opportunity for the adults to get together and celebrate. The Marchants mostly socialized with people from similar backgrounds, and Jean-Pierre says that “it was important for my parents, who were trying to make a life in a new place, to associate with others who spoke their language."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2018-040 / 001 (04)
Date: 1976-1978
Identifier: 2018-040 / 001 (04)
Identifier (PID): yul:1150718

Title: Marchant family videos : 3 J.P Birthday 1 year Old 1976 : Part 2 of 4
Description: A video clip recording from 1976 to 1978 featuring adults and children having a barbecue in a park, hanging out in a car, and meeting Santa Claus. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "These clips show episodes from Jean-Pierre Marchant’s childhood in the mid-1970s Montreal. His parents were immigrants, recently arrived from Argentina and Chile. Throughout Jean-Pierre’s childhood, they documented the family’s life with a Super 8 camera (and would later switch to video). These clips depict him as a playful child, trips, and well-attended birthday parties. Looking back, Jean-Pierre recognizes that these parties were a big opportunity for the adults to get together and celebrate. The Marchants mostly socialized with people from similar backgrounds, and Jean-Pierre says that “it was important for my parents, who were trying to make a life in a new place, to associate with others who spoke their language."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2018-040 / 001 (03)
Date: 1976-1978
Identifier: 2018-040 / 001 (03)
Identifier (PID): yul:1150717

Title: Marchant family videos : 3 J.P Birthday 1 year Old 1976 : Part 1 of 4
Description: A video clip recording from 1976 to 1978consisting of a party with adults and children dancing, footage of and from the top of the CN tower, a child playing around the house and pool, and a child playing with a soccerball wearing a 1978 Argentina Championship t-shirt. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "These clips show episodes from Jean-Pierre Marchant’s childhood in the mid-1970s Montreal. His parents were immigrants, recently arrived from Argentina and Chile. Throughout Jean-Pierre’s childhood, they documented the family’s life with a Super 8 camera (and would later switch to video). These clips depict him as a playful child, trips, and well-attended birthday parties. Looking back, Jean-Pierre recognizes that these parties were a big opportunity for the adults to get together and celebrate. The Marchants mostly socialized with people from similar backgrounds, and Jean-Pierre says that 'it was important for my parents, who were trying to make a life in a new place, to associate with others who spoke their language.'"
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2018-040 / 001 (02)
Date: 1976-1978
Identifier: 2018-040 / 001 (02)
Identifier (PID): yul:1150716

Title: Seaman family videos : Lahant Milking Cow etc.
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring children at a beach. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Heather and her siblings met and visited her paternal grandparents for the first time in 1978. "My grandfather was born in 1898. He lived to about 105, so he got to see three centuries - the late 1800’s, the 1900’s and he died in the early 2000’s. This was Heather’s first international family vacation, a memorable time in the Commonwealth of Dominica where Heather’s parents were born and raised - her father in Vieille Case and her mother in Portsmouth. In the travel clips, various footage shows the time Heather and her family swam at Purple Turtle Beach, enjoyed sugarcane, fresh coconut water and watched her Dad milk a cow on her grandparents’- property in La Haut. There’s also footage of their visit to a busy city. Then back in the countryside, Heather notes, "That’s just us walking with a relative through a village in Dominica.""
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(11)
Date: 1978
Identifier: 2019-067/001(11)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153237

Title: Seaman family videos : Lahant Milking Cow etc.
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring adults and children drinking from a coconut . Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Heather and her siblings met and visited her paternal grandparents for the first time in 1978. "My grandfather was born in 1898. He lived to about 105, so he got to see three centuries - the late 1800’s, the 1900’s and he died in the early 2000’s. This was Heather’s first international family vacation, a memorable time in the Commonwealth of Dominica where Heather’s parents were born and raised - her father in Vieille Case and her mother in Portsmouth. In the travel clips, various footage shows the time Heather and her family swam at Purple Turtle Beach, enjoyed sugarcane, fresh coconut water and watched her Dad milk a cow on her grandparents’- property in La Haut. There’s also footage of their visit to a busy city. Then back in the countryside, Heather notes, "That’s just us walking with a relative through a village in Dominica.""
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(16)
Date: 1978
Identifier: 2019-067/001(16)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153222

Title: Seaman family videos : Halloween costumes
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring children dancing and exiting a house in Halloween costumes. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "The Seaman family moved to their second family home on 100th Avenue in Chomedey, Laval, Quebec in the mid-1970s. In this particular footage, Heather recalls getting ready for Halloween and dressing up in homemade costumes. Heather recalls doing a multitude of different activities as a child, and explains that they weren’t limited as children. For example, her brother, Herbert, played hockey at a high level and played guitar, while she and her sister Hazel figure skated, took piano lessons, and dance classes. "We were the only black family in the neighbourhood and an interesting story is when we first moved there, people were shocked to see a black family with two cars!" In Laval, Heather’s mother Althea Joseph Charles Seaman, started the Laval Black Community Association in 1983 to bring together Black people from different cultural backgrounds. The intention was to create a support system, but also a space for people to learn about each other’s cultures and share their achievements, successes and heritage with the wider Canadian community. Her mother also developed an annual Black History Month celebration where people showcased their artwork, music, writing, spoken word pieces and dance performances. Business people, clergy from various faiths and politicians from all levels of Government were always in the audience no matter their race or whether they were English or French speakers. "The organizations that our mom created were to give us a sense of our heritage.""
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(03)
Date: 1976-1977
Identifier: 2019-067/001(03)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153221

Title: Seaman family videos : Christmas brunch
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring Christmas brunch. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Daily life in Montreal, Quebec. This footage shows Heather trying to teach her younger sister Hazel how to brush her teeth. Heather describes this footage as "normal kids doing normal things." Heather recalls playing at the park across from her family home a lot and riding their bikes. She describes the home in this footage as her "first family home in Montreal," specifically located on Couvrette Street in St. Laurent, which is a borough in Montreal, Quebec. Additional footage shows the family with some cousins, enjoying Christmas brunch, at their third home, once again back in St. Laurent this time on Lipp Street, where they lived for about three or four years. When asked about participating in Home Made Visible, Heather spoke about how important she believes the project is: "When I heard about it [Home Made Visible], I thought what a great opportunity to show a black Canadian family living like everybody else." She reflected that the archival footage would be around for generations. "We’re part of Canada’s history. We’ve contributed to Canada’s success. We’re part of the fabric of Canadian society.""
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(12)
Date: 1977
Identifier: 2019-067/001(12)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153219

Title: Seaman family videos : Lahant Milking Cow etc.
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring cityscapes in the Dominica. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Heather and her siblings met and visited her paternal grandparents for the first time in 1978. "My grandfather was born in 1898. He lived to about 105, so he got to see three centuries - the late 1800’s, the 1900’s and he died in the early 2000’s. This was Heather’s first international family vacation, a memorable time in the Commonwealth of Dominica where Heather’s parents were born and raised - her father in Vieille Case and her mother in Portsmouth. In the travel clips, various footage shows the time Heather and her family swam at Purple Turtle Beach, enjoyed sugarcane, fresh coconut water and watched her Dad milk a cow on her grandparents’- property in La Haut. There’s also footage of their visit to a busy city. Then back in the countryside, Heather notes, "That’s just us walking with a relative through a village in Dominica.""
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(18)
Date: 1978
Identifier: 2019-067/001(18)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153217

Title: Seaman family videos : Lahant Milking Cow etc.
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring a family carrying beach supplies and walking on a path surrounded by a jungle. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Heather and her siblings met and visited her paternal grandparents for the first time in 1978. "My grandfather was born in 1898. He lived to about 105, so he got to see three centuries - the late 1800’s, the 1900’s and he died in the early 2000’s. This was Heather’s first international family vacation, a memorable time in the Commonwealth of Dominica where Heather’s parents were born and raised - her father in Vieille Case and her mother in Portsmouth. In the travel clips, various footage shows the time Heather and her family swam at Purple Turtle Beach, enjoyed sugarcane, fresh coconut water and watched her Dad milk a cow on her grandparents’- property in La Haut. There’s also footage of their visit to a busy city. Then back in the countryside, Heather notes, "That’s just us walking with a relative through a village in Dominica.""
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(20)
Date: 1978
Identifier: 2019-067/001(20)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153213

Title: Seaman family videos : Lahant Milking Cow etc.
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie that predominantly features children purchasing and eating popsicles and adults millking a cow. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Heather and her siblings met and visited her paternal grandparents for the first time in 1978. "My grandfather was born in 1898. He lived to about 105, so he got to see three centuries - the late 1800’s, the 1900’s and he died in the early 2000’s. This was Heather’s first international family vacation, a memorable time in the Commonwealth of Dominica where Heather’s parents were born and raised - her father in Vieille Case and her mother in Portsmouth. In the travel clips, various footage shows the time Heather and her family swam at Purple Turtle Beach, enjoyed sugarcane, fresh coconut water and watched her Dad milk a cow on her grandparents’- property in La Haut. There’s also footage of their visit to a busy city. Then back in the countryside, Heather notes, "That’s just us walking with a relative through a village in Dominica.""
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(15)
Date: 1978
Identifier: 2019-067/001(15)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153211

Title: Seaman family videos : 2nd Carnival Montreal 75
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring a ocean themed band playing mas, dancing, and marching in the Carifesta parade. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "This footage was shot in the mid-1970s and marks one of the first Montreal Caribbean Carnival celebrations in the city. Heather’s parents, Richard and Althea Seaman, brought her and her siblings, Hazel and Herbert, to see their first few parades as spectators. In later years, the family was occasionally involved as participants whether helping to create costumes, build floats or march in the annual parade. The summer event was launched to celebrate and showcase the Caribbean culture and heritage of immigrants, who were born on one of the diverse islands or those who had ancestry there. While Toronto started their Caribbean Carnival Caribana - in 1967 as a tribute to Canada’s centennial celebrations, Montrealers held their first Carifiesta parade and festival in 1975."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(05)
Date: [1975 or 1976]
Identifier: 2019-067/001(05)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153210

Title: Seaman family videos : 2nd Carnival Montreal 75
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring a astrological zodiac themed band playing mas, dancing, and marching in Carifesta. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "This footage was shot in the mid-1970s and marks one of the first Montreal Caribbean Carnival celebrations in the city. Heather’s parents, Richard and Althea Seaman, brought her and her siblings, Hazel and Herbert, to see their first few parades as spectators. In later years, the family was occasionally involved as participants whether helping to create costumes, build floats or march in the annual parade. The summer event was launched to celebrate and showcase the Caribbean culture and heritage of immigrants, who were born on one of the diverse islands or those who had ancestry there. While Toronto started their Caribbean Carnival Caribana - in 1967 as a tribute to Canada’s centennial celebrations, Montrealers held their first Carifiesta parade and festival in 1975."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(06)
Date: [1975 or 1976]
Identifier: 2019-067/001(06)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153207

Title: Seaman family videos : riding bikes and tricycles
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie that predominantly features a boy riding a bicycle and a girl riding a tricycle. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Daily life in Montreal, Quebec. This footage shows Heather trying to teach her younger sister Hazel how to brush her teeth. Heather describes this footage as "normal kids doing normal things." Heather recalls playing at the park across from her family home a lot and riding their bikes. She describes the home in this footage as her "first family home in Montreal," specifically located on Couvrette Street in St. Laurent, which is a borough in Montreal, Quebec. Additional footage shows the family with some cousins, enjoying Christmas brunch, at their third home, once again back in St. Laurent this time on Lipp Street, where they lived for about three or four years. When asked about participating in Home Made Visible, Heather spoke about how important she believes the project is: "When I heard about it [Home Made Visible], I thought what a great opportunity to show a black Canadian family living like everybody else." She reflected that the archival footage would be around for generations. "We’re part of Canada’s history. We’ve contributed to Canada’s success. We’re part of the fabric of Canadian society.""
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(08)
Date: 1973-1975
Identifier: 2019-067/001(08)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153202

Title: Seaman family videos : 2nd Carnival Montreal 75
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring family members preparing a bbq and children playing at a LaFontain Park. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "This footage was shot in the mid-1970s and marks one of the first Montreal Caribbean Carnival celebrations in the city. Heather’s parents, Richard and Althea Seaman, brought her and her siblings, Hazel and Herbert, to see their first few parades as spectators. In later years, the family was occasionally involved as participants whether helping to create costumes, build floats or march in the annual parade. The summer event was launched to celebrate and showcase the Caribbean culture and heritage of immigrants, who were born on one of the diverse islands or those who had ancestry there. While Toronto started their Caribbean Carnival Caribana - in 1967 as a tribute to Canada’s centennial celebrations, Montrealers held their first Carifiesta parade and festival in 1975."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(02)
Date: [1975 or 1976]
Identifier: 2019-067/001(02)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153200

Title: Seaman family videos : Lahant Milking Cow etc.
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring children at a beach. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Heather and her siblings met and visited her paternal grandparents for the first time in 1978. "My grandfather was born in 1898. He lived to about 105, so he got to see three centuries - the late 1800’s, the 1900’s and he died in the early 2000’s. This was Heather’s first international family vacation, a memorable time in the Commonwealth of Dominica where Heather’s parents were born and raised - her father in Vieille Case and her mother in Portsmouth. In the travel clips, various footage shows the time Heather and her family swam at Purple Turtle Beach, enjoyed sugarcane, fresh coconut water and watched her Dad milk a cow on her grandparents’- property in La Haut. There’s also footage of their visit to a busy city. Then back in the countryside, Heather notes, "That’s just us walking with a relative through a village in Dominica.""
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(10)
Date: 1978
Identifier: 2019-067/001(10)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153194

Title: Seaman family videos : birthday kisses and presents
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring a family sharing kisses in front of a birthday cake and bringing presents to the birthday girl. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Every year, on our birthdays, my parents would go all out. Birthday surprises in our house were everything! In this family footage, shot at our third family home on Lipp Street in St. Laurent, a borough in Montreal, Quebec, you can see Heather with her siblings and parents celebrating her seventh birthday. It was December 28, 1977 - three days after Christmas - so Heather always received double the presents every year! 1977 was also the same year, that her sister, Hazel, broke her arm - you can see her wearing a cast on her left arm. Additional footage shows the family with some cousins, enjoying Christmas brunch at home on Lippe Street, in St. Laurent, where they lived for about three or four years. Christmas was a big deal in their house. Annually, they would enjoy a big breakfast before opening presents. As Catholics, the day would also include attending Christmas mass, then later welcoming relatives and friends at the home for a holiday celebration, involving lots more food, including Caribbean dishes and desserts."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(14)
Date: 1977
Identifier: 2019-067/001(14)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153187

Title: Seaman family videos : swing set
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring children and an adult on a swingset. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Daily life in Montreal, Quebec. This footage shows Heather trying to teach her younger sister Hazel how to brush her teeth. Heather describes this footage as "normal kids doing normal things." Heather recalls playing at the park across from her family home a lot and riding their bikes. She describes the home in this footage as her "first family home in Montreal," specifically located on Couvrette Street in St. Laurent, which is a borough in Montreal, Quebec. Additional footage shows the family with some cousins, enjoying Christmas brunch, at their third home, once again back in St. Laurent this time on Lipp Street, where they lived for about three or four years. When asked about participating in Home Made Visible, Heather spoke about how important she believes the project is: "When I heard about it [Home Made Visible], I thought what a great opportunity to show a black Canadian family living like everybody else." She reflected that the archival footage would be around for generations. "We’re part of Canada’s history. We’ve contributed to Canada’s success. We’re part of the fabric of Canadian society.""
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(09)
Date: 1973-1975
Identifier: 2019-067/001(09)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153185

Title: Seaman family videos : children brushing teeth
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring a child brushing the teeth of a younger child. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Daily life in Montreal, Quebec. This footage shows Heather trying to teach her younger sister Hazel how to brush her teeth. Heather describes this footage as "normal kids doing normal things." Heather recalls playing at the park across from her family home a lot and riding their bikes. She describes the home in this footage as her "first family home in Montreal," specifically located on Couvrette Street in St. Laurent, which is a borough in Montreal, Quebec. Additional footage shows the family with some cousins, enjoying Christmas brunch, at their third home, once again back in St. Laurent this time on Lipp Street, where they lived for about three or four years. When asked about participating in Home Made Visible, Heather spoke about how important she believes the project is: "When I heard about it [Home Made Visible], I thought what a great opportunity to show a black Canadian family living like everybody else." She reflected that the archival footage would be around for generations. "We’re part of Canada’s history. We’ve contributed to Canada’s success. We’re part of the fabric of Canadian society.""
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(07)
Date: 1973-1975
Identifier: 2019-067/001(07)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153184

Title: Seaman family videos : Lahant Milking Cow etc.
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring a shallow river with streets, buildings, and mountains in the background. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Heather and her siblings met and visited her paternal grandparents for the first time in 1978. "My grandfather was born in 1898. He lived to about 105, so he got to see three centuries - the late 1800’s, the 1900’s and he died in the early 2000’s. This was Heather’s first international family vacation, a memorable time in the Commonwealth of Dominica where Heather’s parents were born and raised - her father in Vieille Case and her mother in Portsmouth. In the travel clips, various footage shows the time Heather and her family swam at Purple Turtle Beach, enjoyed sugarcane, fresh coconut water and watched her Dad milk a cow on her grandparents’- property in La Haut. There’s also footage of their visit to a busy city. Then back in the countryside, Heather notes, "That’s just us walking with a relative through a village in Dominica.""
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(19)
Date: 1978
Identifier: 2019-067/001(19)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153179

Title: Seaman family videos : birthday cake
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring a child a blindfolded child led to a birthday cake and blowing out the candles with her family by her side. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Every year, on our birthdays, my parents would go all out. Birthday surprises in our house were everything! In this family footage, shot at our third family home on Lipp Street in St. Laurent, a borough in Montreal, Quebec, you can see Heather with her siblings and parents celebrating her seventh birthday. It was December 28, 1977 - three days after Christmas - so Heather always received double the presents every year! 1977 was also the same year, that her sister, Hazel, broke her arm - you can see her wearing a cast on her left arm. Additional footage shows the family with some cousins, enjoying Christmas brunch at home on Lippe Street, in St. Laurent, where they lived for about three or four years. Christmas was a big deal in their house. Annually, they would enjoy a big breakfast before opening presents. As Catholics, the day would also include attending Christmas mass, then later welcoming relatives and friends at the home for a holiday celebration, involving lots more food, including Caribbean dishes and desserts."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(13)
Date: 1977
Identifier: 2019-067/001(13)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153177

Title: Seaman family videos : Lahant Milking Cow etc.
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring a boy and a woman in a village. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Heather and her siblings met and visited her paternal grandparents for the first time in 1978. "My grandfather was born in 1898. He lived to about 105, so he got to see three centuries - the late 1800’s, the 1900’s and he died in the early 2000’s. This was Heather’s first international family vacation, a memorable time in the Commonwealth of Dominica where Heather’s parents were born and raised - her father in Vieille Case and her mother in Portsmouth. In the travel clips, various footage shows the time Heather and her family swam at Purple Turtle Beach, enjoyed sugarcane, fresh coconut water and watched her Dad milk a cow on her grandparents’- property in La Haut. There’s also footage of their visit to a busy city. Then back in the countryside, Heather notes, "That’s just us walking with a relative through a village in Dominica.""
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(17)
Date: 1978
Identifier: 2019-067/001(17)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153175

Title: Seaman family videos : Halloween treats
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring children in Halloween costumes waving to the camera, entering a home, and showing off their treats. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "The Seaman family moved to their second family home on 100th Avenue in Chomedey, Laval, Quebec in the mid-1970s. In this particular footage, Heather recalls getting ready for Halloween and dressing up in homemade costumes. Heather recalls doing a multitude of different activities as a child, and explains that they weren’t limited as children. For example, her brother, Herbert, played hockey at a high level and played guitar, while she and her sister Hazel figure skated, took piano lessons, and dance classes. "We were the only black family in the neighbourhood and an interesting story is when we first moved there, people were shocked to see a black family with two cars!" In Laval, Heather’s mother Althea Joseph Charles Seaman, started the Laval Black Community Association in 1983 to bring together Black people from different cultural backgrounds. The intention was to create a support system, but also a space for people to learn about each other’s cultures and share their achievements, successes and heritage with the wider Canadian community. Her mother also developed an annual Black History Month celebration where people showcased their artwork, music, writing, spoken word pieces and dance performances. Business people, clergy from various faiths and politicians from all levels of Government were always in the audience no matter their race or whether they were English or French speakers. "The organizations that our mom created were to give us a sense of our heritage.""
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(04)
Date: 1976-1977
Identifier: 2019-067/001(04)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153172

Title: Chan family videos : Stan marching with a tuba is in his Virden Band uniform
Description: Project and donor contributed description follows: "Filmed by Kate and Stan’s dad, George, in 1963. George staged this shot of Stan is in his Virden Band uniform marching with his alto horn in his bedroom before going downstairs into the world. Four years later the Virden Band would go on to play at Expo ’67 in Montreal."
Type: video files
Accession / Box: 2018-039 / 001 (02)
Date: 1963
Identifier: 2018-039 / 001 (02)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152064

Title: Chan family videos : bathroom mirror selfie
Description: Project and donor contributed description follows: "Ahead of his time Kate’s dad, George, takes one of the original selfies and films himself in his bathroom mirror on Super8 Kodachrome film in 1963. Kate’s brother, Stan, recalls seeing his dad set up lights to make this possible. George was a real film buff, a fan of Charlie Chaplin, and actively sought out arts and culture. Life and Time magazines came through the mail every week, and Kate says if it weren’t for him taking up these interests she wouldn’t have a worldview outside of small town Prairie Manitoba."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2018-039 / 001 (01)
Date: 1963
Identifier: 2018-039 / 001 (01)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152062

Title: Chan family videos : Virden Cafe sign
Description: Item consists of footage of a sign that reads: Virden Cafe : fish & chips, chop suey. Project and donor contributed description follows: "The neon lit café sign of the Virden Café at night, Kate’s dad’s Chinese Canadian restaurant."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2018-039 / 001 (03)
Date: 1963
Identifier: 2018-039 / 001 (03)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152067

Title: Marchant family videos : 3 J.P Birthday 1 year Old 1976 : Part 4 of 4
Description: A video clip recording from 1976 to 1978 with the first half consisting of children and adults gathered in a garage and backyard, and the second half capturing Niagara Falls during the wintertime. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "These clips show episodes from Jean-Pierre Marchant’s childhood in the mid-1970s Montreal. His parents were immigrants, recently arrived from Argentina and Chile. Throughout Jean-Pierre’s childhood, they documented the family’s life with a Super 8 camera (and would later switch to video). These clips depict him as a playful child, trips, and well-attended birthday parties. Looking back, Jean-Pierre recognizes that these parties were a big opportunity for the adults to get together and celebrate. The Marchants mostly socialized with people from similar backgrounds, and Jean-Pierre says that “it was important for my parents, who were trying to make a life in a new place, to associate with others who spoke their language."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2018-040 / 001 (05)
Date: 1976-1978
Identifier: 2018-040 / 001 (05)
Identifier (PID): yul:1150719

Title: Marchant family videos : N-5-6-7-8-9- 1976 (Jampi)
Description: A video clip recording from 1976 primarily featuring a child playing in his house and park; the first third of the clip consists of urban and rural landscapes. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "Jean-Pierre Marchant’s parents immigrated from South America in the early 1970s before he was born. His mother is from Argentina and his father is from Chile. Jean-Pierre was born in Vieux-Rosemont, Montreal, and spent the first year of his life there before they all moved to (what was then) the suburbs in Saint-Hubert, Longueuil, about 14 km from downtown Montreal. Jean-Pierre recalls day trips with his parents to the United States and Toronto. On this day, the family captures the roads and cityscapes of New Hampshire."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Date: 1976
Identifier: 2018-040 / 001 (01)
Identifier (PID): yul:1150715

Title: Sointula
Description: Consists of a video recording (no audio) of scenes of the island community of Sointula in British Columbia. Annotations on tape include: "Erasure Date: Perpetuity" "Series: Western Profiles" and "Library Number: V1343."
Type: videotapes
Fonds: Varpu Lindström fonds (F0558)
Accession / Box: 2009-025 / 018 (22)
Date: [before 1990?]
Identifier: ASC41385
Identifier (PID): yul:1125048

Title: A Collection and Re-Creation of Bahamian Traditional Dances
Description: Consists of a portion of a major research project completed through York University's Department of Dance by Roderick T. Johnson, focusing on the history and development of traditional dances in the Bahamas, including quadrille, heel and toe polka, calypso waltz, sculling dance, ring play dances (brown girl in the ring, bellaby, jump-in-dance, knock the conch style), and festival dances (junkango dance, goombay dance, fire dance). Video credits include: Artistic director/producer: Roderick T. Johnson Videoproducer/director: Peter Freele Videographer: Kouladjie Kambiz Costume designer: Roderick T. Johnson Narrator: Hal Sullivan Script Editor: Rebecca Brosseau, Mary Jane Warner Dance Segment Production: Video Department, York University Studio and post-production facilities: Division of Instructional Development, University of Windsor. Committee Members: Mary Jane Warner, Nina De Shane, Jeff Henry Dancers: Marion Eva Waldamann, Gregor Breedy, Patrick Parson, Rebecca Brosseau, Roderick Johnson, Urie P. Thomas Special Thanks: Dr. Mary Jane Warner, York University Dance Department, Marshall Pynkoski, Jeannette Zingg, Rebecca Brosseau, Constance Hammermaister, Millicent Johnson, John Wilson, Dr. Walter Zingg, Dr. Gail Saunders, Clement Bethel, Keva Bethel, Cris Leelan, Bill Galligan, Beverly Johnson, Victor Johnson. Music: "Bone Fish Medley" by Kayla Edwards and the Research Group, Heel and Toe Polka by the American Folkway Society, "Bellamena" arranged by Clement Bethel, Produced by Kayla and the Research Group, 1990; "Brown Skin Gal" by Joseph Spence, "Junckango Dance" by Bahamian Junkanoo Band, "Goonbay Dance" by Bahamian Goombay Band, and "Fire Dance" recorded by Marshall Stern (American Folkway Society).
Type: Videocassettes
Accession / Box: Department of Dance, York University
Date: November 1992
Identifier: ASC41092
Identifier (PID): yul:1120738