Black Heritage Caucus: Connecting Stories Across the Country 

In 2025, EHC Research & Policy Lead, Daliso Mwanza was part of a national organizing team of the National Trust’s Black Heritage Caucus, a national gathering of Black heritage practitioners from across Canada focused on sharing knowledge, building relationships, and strengthening approaches to preserving Black histories. 

During the conference, participants traveled through Nova Scotia, from Halifax to Birchtown, engaging with sites central to Black Loyalist history, guided by community historians whose storytelling revealed both presence and erasure in the landscape. These experiences grounded conversations in lived history and collective memory. 

Across the gathering, practitioners identified shared priorities: preserving oral histories, securing sustainable funding, and creating multigenerational spaces for heritage engagement. As one participant reflected, “Heritage is discovery and healing.”