UBSR Presents the A+ Party!


Saturday April 17th, 2010
Doors Open @ 9:00 pm
$5
Ryerson's Ram in the Rye Pub


Come reach UBSR's last party of the year and hit exams with a bang!
 
 
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Our Members Appreciation & Elections Event.
When: This Thursday March 11
Time: 6pm 
Where: SCC 115

This has been a great year and we want to thank all our loyal members and supports and give them the chance to choose the 2010/2011 Exec team.  So please come out to our Member Appreciations & Elections Event this Thursday, March 11th, 2010 and influence the direction of UBSR!
 
 

Check out the 2nd Annual Viola Desmond Day Awards & Celebration!
Thursday, March 4th, 2010 from 6-8 pm
POD 250, The Commons Pod
380 Victoria St.
 
 
Juanita Westmoreland-Traoré, is the first appointed black judge in the history of Quebec. She also holds the distinction of being the first black dean of a law school (University of Windsor's Faculty of Law) in Canada’s history.
 
 
The Event will take place on Feb. 22 at 5:30PM in SCC115
The partnering groups are: United Blacks Students Association, Hillel @ Ryerson, RSU, and Campus for Christ
 
 
Born and raised in Halifax, Viola Desmond trained as a teacher but soon joined her husband Jack Desmond in a combined barbershop and hairdressing salon, a beauty parlour on Gottingen Street. While expanding her business across the province, Viola went to New Glasgow in 1946.

In New Glasgow, Desmond developed car trouble and decided to go to the movies while repairs were made. She bought a ticket, entered the theatre and took a seat on the main floor, unaware that tickets sold to African Canadians in this town were for the balcony and the main floor was reserved solely for White patrons. 
 
 
The eldest of eight from a Glen Allen, Ontario family, Addie Aylestock was descended from a long line of those who settled along the Conestogo River. She made her way to the big city of Toronto for greater opportunities when she entered her teens. In order to support herself she took the work that was available to all Black women at the time—domestic work (cook/housekeeper)—to earn her board and keep. Aylestock felt a higher calling and attended the Medical Missionary College with the hope of working in Africa. However, in order to qualify for this ultimate foreign service, she would have needed to find the additional means of first obtaining training in the United States.

 
 
K, here's part 2/5: Rose Fortune:
 
 
Image: Mary Ann Shadd (courtesy Library and Archives Canada/C-029977)


For the next 5 days UBSR will showcase one of history's many powerful black women.  Today our feature is: Mary Ann Shad (Click Read More for her bio)
 
 
NSBE has been able to secure FREE conference attendance for 10 people!!! (Read more for additional details)