History Club Meeting
Wed. Feb 18, at 1 p.m. on ZOOM

Sheila White 
Author of The Letters

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Toronto author, the award-winning Sheila White, will give an illustrated talk about her biographical novel, “The Letters: Postmark Prejudice in Black and White” (2023, Yorkland Publishing). 

Drawn from diary accounts, correspondence, photos and artefacts from the 1940s, the story revolves around a targeted letter-writing campaign by family and community members aimed at stopping the interracial marriage of White’s parents in Toronto in the summer of 1947.

Vivian Keeler is an intelligent, attractive and determined white woman from a traditional Nova Scotia family who risks it all by falling in love with a Black man named “Billy” White, a charismatic and gifted member of a prominent Black family in Halifax.  A slide show will be followed by Q&A.

About Sheila White 

Scarborough-born author Sheila White is an award-winning community leader whose background includes local news reporting and editing, political and media work, and environmental activism. She is Music Director at Don Heights Unitarian Congregation, and a licensed lay chaplain. Sheila is a published songwriter and leads an open choir that performs mostly her original material.

Sheila’s awards include an African Canadian Achievement Award, a Canada 125 Medal, an Urban Hero Award, a Queen's Platinum Jubilee Medal and a King Charles III Coronation Medal. She lives in Agincourt with husband Alex. “The Letters” is her debut novel. In October, the book was part of the African-Canadian Literature course curriculum at the University of Toronto. Sheila’s brother, Chris White, is a well-known in Ottawa as a folk music personality and CKCU-FM radio host.