Atlantic Voices on CBC Radio aired the documentary on the Martin Street Housing Cooperative in Antigonish by Rose Murphy, featuring interviews with Chantal Phee and Jana MacDonald, who wrote her 1978 StFX Sociology thesis on the racist history of Martin Street. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-3-atlantic-voice/clip/15986144-the-martin-street-mystery
The People’s Photo Album published in 2018 to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the StFX Extension Department featured 6 pages on the generations of the Phee family, whose racist history of displacement from the fringes of the StFX campus to the outskirts of Antigonish, had been buried even among the Black families themselves. (See pp. 126-131 in The People’s Photo Album: http://www.harppublishing.ca/books/the-peoples-photo-album/) The notes from StFX Extension field worker Pat Skinner on the racist history of the Martin Street Cooperative were not mentioned in the radio documentary. StFX Extension was a key player in supporting the Black families against the racist opposition to this housing development, quite possibly the first for a Black community in Canada.
