The British-American Institute of Science and Industry was a school started in 1842 by Josiah Henson near Dresden, Canada West, as part of the Dawn Settlement, a community of freedmen and fugitive slaves.
The institute was a school for all ages designed to provide a general education and teacher training.
For a short period it was a manual labour school.
It was taken over by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1849.
Its site is now encompassed by the Josiah Henson Museum of African-Canadian History (formerly Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site).