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Swan River’s metamorphosis through the eyes of a Black photographer

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William S.A. Beal was among the first documented Black settlers in Manitoba. He was an engineer by trade, but moonlighted as a doctor, mechanic, astronomer, carpenter, librarian and school district representative. With photographs and a handwritten memoir, Beal captured an intimate portrait of life on the Prairies.

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Swan River’s metamorphosis through the eyes of a Black photographer

Billy Beal — a Black sawmill worker who immigrated at the turn of the 20th century — photographed life of settlers in Manitoba’s Swan River Valley, capturing everything from the clearing of old-growth forests to house parties

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