Kijiji: Sarah Baumchems

Sarah Baumchems: The images are chilling, and what they intimate is repugnant to the 21st century mind. But its all there, typed out in reams of paper splayed across Sarah Baumchems kitchen table, remnants from the Ku Klux Klans foray into southern Ontario, nine decades ago, according to The Star. This isnt classed as history. Its classed as hate. I couldnt just sell it on Kijiji or anything, says Baumchem, 34, wrapped in a snug hoodie with a big shaggy dog pawing at her chair in the warmth of her home, on a windy stretch of country road about 30 kilometres north of Bowmanville and Hooded men in spectral robes hold arcane rituals in the woods on the edge of town. Burning crosses light up the night from perches in the distant hills. The mother of three boys shakes her head as she leafs through the aged documents. Her hands pass over strange symbols and Latin lettering, numbered KKK membership cards, Klan bulletins and communiqus. She usually keeps it all tucked away in a box, hidden from her children. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.