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Date(s) - 20/02/2026
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Born the second son of a career military officer and a 3x great-grandson of Harriet Tubman’s father, Benjamin Ross, Douglas Mitchell grew up in various countries around the world and spent much of his professional life exploring all six inhabited continents as an ultra-long-haul international airline pilot. For the past three years, Mr. Mitchell has been engaged in intensive, independent research and scholarship investigating the history of slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, with particular focus on the remarkable life and the enduring legacy of his great, great-aunt, Harriet Tubman, who was born and enslaved in Dorchester County, Maryland.
Retracing his Aunt Harriet’s footsteps from slavery in Maryland to freedom in Canada West, Mr. Mitchell arrived in St. Catharines last summer, 174-years after Tubman first arrived. Mr. Mitchell’s research odyssey includes retracing his Aunt Harriet Tubman’s movements and activities as a key conductor on the Underground Railroad, not only through Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York, but indeed, throughout southern Ontario, from Fort Erie and Niagara Falls; to St. Catharines; and along the entire northern rim of Lake Erie, westbound to Chatham; North Buxton; Dresden; and Windsor-Amherstburg, before finally concluding 250-kilometers east of St. Catharines, in Auburn, New York, where Tubman lived-out the final five-decades of her long life, and ultimately died in 1913. Mr. Mitchell is honoured and humbled to share with you some of the remarkable and unexpected findings that he has uncovered in the course of his incredible research journey.
Register on Zoom to join us on Friday, February 20th at 7 PM: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/gYvE4YMcTBOJX3v3D861pw
