As part of this system, the Canadian doctor Alexander Milton Ross pretended to be a bird catcher to travel the American South and solicit “stockholders” who donated supplies. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this system in which “conductors” like Harriet Tubman helped enslaved people secretly escape to Canada.
ANSWER: Underground Railroad
[10m] In the 1970s, this Canadian city demolished the nearby village of Africville which had been settled by several generations of Black refugees. Africville didn’t receive aid from a 1917 explosion after the SS Mont-Blanc collided with the SS Imo in this city’s harbor.
ANSWER: Halifax [accept the Halifax Explosion]
[10h] James Douglas accepted Black settlers from the US to this future province in the Pioneer Committee. Edward Bulwer-Lytton selected Richard Moody to be Lieutenant-Governor of this province during the Fraser Gold Rush.
ANSWER: British Columbia [or the Colony of British Columbia; prompt on BC]
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