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An arrowhead thousands of years old, plucked by a child from the earth; a British soldier’s crossplate from Fort York, dented perhaps by shrapnel in the explosions of 1813. William Lyon Mackenzie’s pocket watch; a flyer for Mahalia Jackson’s 1956 Massey Hall concert, presented by the local Grant AME Church.