 Scholars identify this as a suppressed history because it contradicts narratives of Ontario and Canada as places of justice and equality.However, this history includes a legacy of slavery in Canada that lasted for over 200 years as well as acts of terror perpetuated by white Ontarians such as burning the barns of Black families to the ground.The last racially segregated school in Ontario did not close until 1965  and in Nova Scotia until 1983, meaning that racially segregated schools existed for over one hundred years.