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Photo: Original window frame from "Little Zion" Chapel. A log structure used as the BME church 1865 - 1911
Your financial support will enable us to restore this historically important building.
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Fundraising Events - Past and Present !
Sunday May 4th, 2025 at 11 AM
GREAT NEWS !!!!
The Church service will resume Sunday May 4th
The church has been cleaned and is now a safe environment for us to gather again.
Renovations will be on going for the next several years as we work to repair and update various materials in the building.
Fundraising continues, please consider a contribution to keep our historical Black History site.
Join the restoration committee and some volunteers June 21, 2025 10AM - 4PM
Join us this year for a full tour of the BME - Grace centre.
Learn our history, and view our new Local Black history gallery " Legacy Hall".
Live at the Feb 15th, 2025 Attack Hockey Game
Live at the Feb 15th, 2025 Attack Hockey Game
FEB. 8th, 2025 Black History presentation
Live at the Feb 15th, 2025 Attack Hockey Game
Please join us Feb 8th 2025 at 10:30 AM
We will have our information and donation table set up, if you wish to assist us with a financial contribution.
Please join us Sept 15th, 2024 at 2pm
We will have our information booth and donation table at this years Decoration Service. Join us to remember those early Black settlers of the Old Durham Rd. Meet some decendants of those families who came to Grey County in search of Freedom.
Canadian Black History Lives here.
August Civic Weekend - 2024
Join us at the 2024 Owen Sound Emancipation Festival:
Fri. Aug 2 " Speaker's Corner" - held at Grey Roots Museum 6-9PM
Sat. Aug 3 "Annual Picnic" - held at Harrison Park 10AM to 6PM
Sun. Aug 4th "Gospel Event" - held at Grey Roots Museum 11 AM - 1 PM
June 1, 2024 1-3pm Grey Roots
Launch of the Northern Terminus Journal.
Program shares various community groups sharing Grey County's Black history.
We share the BME restoration news.
Free event - refreshments
LOOK FOR OUR DONATION TABLE
April 27, 2024 - Gael and Ben
LOOK FOR OUR DONATION TABLE SET UP AT FUTURE LOCATIONS
We appreciate your financial support.
cash or cheques accepted.
April 27, 2024 - Gael and Ben
April 27, 2024 - Gael and Ben
Join us for a great afternoon with Gael ( descendant of the Co founder of The BME Church ) and Nancy ( descendant of early settlers of Negro Creek Rd ).
History Lives Here !
Sat. April 20, 2024 - Bobby Dean and the Blackburn Brothers
Get your tickets before it sells out !
Silent Auction, Photo Both, Donation Box
Attack Hockey Organization - Black History Month - Feb '24 home games
We have been asked by the Attack Hockey organization to participate in their Black History month events. During the month of Feb 2024, we will have a donation table set up on the second floor. Stop by, and support Owen Sounds only Designated Black Heritage site.
Restoration of the BME Church of Owen Sound - Grace Centre
The Restoration Committee's mission is to raise funds to restore this Designated Ontario Heritage site.
Introducing the Restoration Committee of the BME Church of Owen Sound - Grace Centre
Please view our Photo Gallery
Rev Cosmos singing with Liberty Silver at the OSEF Gospel event 2024
James Morton and Cathryn Harris fundraising at the Gospel Event at Grey Roots Museum
Steve and Cathryn Harris at the Emancipation day picnic in Harrison Park Aug 2024
Lorraine Thomson fundraising at the OSEF picnic Aug. 2024
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