director of the Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Research Foundation. From 1961 to 1962, he taught in the department of sociology at the University of Toronto. In 1962, he was the first full-time director of the Ontario Human Rights Commission. In 1972, he became Ontario Human Rights Commissioner. In 1973, he resigned to found his own human rights consulting firm. From 1984 to 1989, he was the Ontario Ombudsman. He founded the Ontario Black History Society. In 1981, he published the book, The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada. In 1993, he was awarded the Order of Ontario. In 1999, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. References Daniel Grafton Hill, at The Canadian Encyclopedia The Freedom-Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada, Daniel G. Hill, Stoddart Publishing Co. Ltd., 34 Lesmill Rd., Toronto, Ontario M3B 2T6 External links CBC The Hour Interview, June 10, 2009. Order of Canada Citation The Freedom-Seekers: The Life and Times of Daniel G. Hill, online exhibit on Archives of Ontario website Daniel G. Hill fonds, Archives of Ontario MCNEIL, DANIEL. Ushering Children Away from a ‘Light Grey World’: Dr. Daniel Hill III and His Pursuit of a Respectable Black Canadian Community. Ontario History 99, no. 1 (2007): 96–106. 1923 births 2003 deaths Writers from Independence, Missouri American emigrants to Canada Black Canadian activists Canadian civil servants Canadian male non-fiction writers Canadian sociologists Howard University alumni Members of the Order of Ontario Officers of the Order of Canada Writers from Toronto University of Toronto alumni 20th-century Canadian historians Black Canadian scientists