Julia Gaffield

York grad and alumna discovers Haiti’s long-lost Declaration of Independence

LIBERTÉ OU LA MORT. When York grad Julia Gaffield (MA ’07) saw those words at the top of a document in a 200-year-old file at The National Archives in London, England, she knew immediately she had found something special and wanted to shout for joy – but one simply doesn’t do that sort of thing […]

York grad finds Haiti’s lost Declaration of Independence

Sitting at a quiet table in the National Archives in London earlier this year, Canadian graduate student Julia Gaffield (MA ’07) opened a bound book of documents from 1804 and unearthed the only known printed copy of Haiti’s Declaration of Independence, wrote The Globe and Mail April 2: “I was surrounded by complete strangers who […]