, particularly the Red River Métis nation. Immigration advertisements were widely circulated. Beal likely would have seen one of the posters, ignored or defied its preference for White settlers, and made his way to Manitoba anyway. Not long after Beal came to Canada, the Canadian government — under the leadership of Prime Minister Laurier — passed a new policy in 1911Beal was a self-taught photographer.
During that time, the popular images of Black people that circulated in Canada were primarily racist and dehumanizing: blackface minstrelsy, Black people as childlike and in positions of servitude. In the self-portrait, however, Beal subverts the White gaze and presents a counter-image, in which he is dignified and poised — a pointed act of resistance to the mainstream misrepresentations.
I moved to the Prairies in 2018 to take on the position of curator at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, where I worked with Morrisseau, shortly after completing my term as the inaugural curator of Nuit Blanche Toronto's Scarborough zone. Just recently, I moved to Saskatchewan for the position of director/curator at the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library.
I ask for Canada to do better by Black Canadians. We can start by acknowledging one of the first early Black Manitobans on the Prairies, by honouring his memory and work.Permanent collections in museums serve as institutional archives and provide opportunities for research, knowledge dissemination, and presentation of work.
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