Canfield Roots

Name: Canfield Roots
Description: Lying nearly forgotten in a grove of trees at the back of a farmer's field is an old cemetery, long abandoned and poorly maintained. The cemetery should hold a special importance to the people of Canfield, a small village in southern Ontario, as the last physical evidence of a significant community of freedom seekers who arrived there on the Underground Railroad in the mid-1800s.

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Lying nearly forgotten in a grove of trees at the back of a farmer's field is an old cemetery, long abandoned and poorly maintained. The cemetery should hold a special importance to the people of Canfield, a small village in southern Ontario, as the last physical evidence of a significant community of freedom seekers who arrived there on the Underground Railroad in the mid-1800s.

Ep 125mEpisode 1You'd never know, but the sleepy hamlet of Canfield in Southern Ontario has a fascinating history hidden from view for years that local historians begin to reveal to Bill Douglas.

Ep 227mEpisode 2As Bill Douglas visits St. Catharines to learn more about freedom seekers in Ontario, his sister Betty Ann confronts her memories of Canfield.

Ep 325mEpisode 3One night in 1953, former Canfield resident Harry Lee was hung for murder in Hamilton. Seventy years later, former residents of Canfield reflect on the impact of Lee's hanging.

Ep 427mEpisode 4An ancestor of Harriet Tubman's niece shares her family's remarkable story with a collector researching an artist with a connection to the abandoned cemetery in Canfield.

Ep 527mEpisode 5A group of residents and descendants meet to discuss what to do over an abandoned family cemetery in Canfield, the final resting place of freedom seekers in the mid-1800s.

Canfield Roots

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