Listen to bestselling author Vanessa Riley discuss Island Queen, her historical novel based on the incredible true-life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of colour who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest landowners in the ...
We acknowledge these are the traditional lands and territories of the Hatiwendaronk, Haudenosaunee, and Anishinaabeg, including the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the Six Nations of the Grand River, many of whom continue to live and work here today. This territory is covered by the Upper Canada Treaties (No. 3) and by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum agreement.
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