On February 22, 2017, IO and the City of Toronto launched a unique partnership to showcase artifacts found on the site of the new Toronto courthouse. Four displays were unveiled at Mayor John Tory’s Black History Month reception. The inaugural display features artifacts significant to Toronto’s Black history, and includes accounts of African-Americans who fled slavery and came to Canada by the Underground Railroad.

The displays are free and publicly accessible at City Hall, located by the elevators to the east tower on the main floor of city hall. These exhibits will be renewed with content from the site archaeology and other accounts of life from the site, while heritage interpretation planning continues throughout the construction of the new Toronto courthouse.