Dr. Daniel G. Hill (1923-2001) Commemorative plaque, 2022.
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Resource ID
10073
Access
Open
Address
25 Cassandra Blvd, Toronto, ON M3A 1S6
Credit Line
Heritage Toronto
Date of Creation
2022
Historical Themes
Black Heritage, Law and Justice, Political History
Program Category
Historical Plaques
Time Period
1954-1998, 1999-today
Caption
Dr. Daniel G. Hill (1923-2001) Commemorative plaque, 2022.
Description
Dr. Daniel G. Hill was a human rights advocate, writer, and historian. During his long career in public service, he was the first director of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) and later Ontario’s Ombudsman.
Born in Independence, Missouri, Dr. Hill came to Canada to study sociology at the University of Toronto in 1950. He married American civil rights activist Donna Bender in 1953, and she joined him in Toronto, where she worked for the Toronto Labour Committee for Human Rights.
The couple moved to Don Mills near this park in 1962, the same year that Dr. Hill was appointed head of the Ontario Human Rights Commission. The OHRC was the first Canadian government agency created to fight racism. Under his leadership, the OHRC took the case of a landlord who refused to rent to Black tenants (Bell v. OHRC) to the Supreme Court of Canada, and the commission grew in size and power.
In 1973, Dr. Hill resigned from the OHRC and formed Canada’s first consulting firm focused on human rights, Daniel G. Hill & Associates. From 1984 until his retirement in 1989, Dr. Hill served as Ontario’s ombudsman, advocating for government fairness.
Marker lat / long: 43.749155, -79.327594 (WGS84)