Black Studies Centre, 1968 de Maisonneuve Street West, Montréal, Québec H3H 1K5, Dr. Clarence Bayne, President.
The Roy States Black History Collection and the Lawrence M. Lande Collection of Canadiana, Rare Books Department, McLennan Library, McGill University.
Ontario
Ontario Black History Society. 10 Adelaide Street E., Suite 202, Toronto, Ontario M5C 1J3, Canada Tel: 416-867-9420, Fax: 416-867-8691 http://www.blackhistorysociety.ca/
African Canadian Online (York University) http://www.yorku.ca/aconline
The Maritimes
Beaton Institute (University College of Cape Breton) http://beaton.uccb.ns.ca/ Manuscripts and records for Whitney Pier and African Orthodox Church.
Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia: http://beaton.uccb.ns.ca/ The Centre provides "artifacts depicting the history and culture of black people of Nova Scotia and throughout the world." It includes "a library consisting of books, audio-visual and archival material."
Dalhousie University
The Killam Library houses a growing collection of materials on Black Canadians with an emphasis on Nova Scotia. The collection which supports the James Robinson Johnston Chair (http://www.library.dal.ca/subjects/BSTCollection.htm) includes books, government documents and audio-visual materials. The online catalogue Novanet lists all of these materials.
The HRM Libraries, especially the Spring Garden branch and the North branch, have books and newspaper clipping files of local interest.Their online catalogue lists their book collection.
Nova Scotia. Department of Education and Culture. African Canadian Services: http://acs.ednet.ns.ca/
This unit supports the teaching of Black Canadian history in Nova Scotia schools. It provides a book collection as well as teaching materials.
Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management: http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/
The official provincial Archives houses census, newspapers, church records, land grants, births/deaths, documents, records, etc. relating to Nova Scotian history.
BosaNova: A searchable electronic guide to archival holdings: http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/database/
Local Maritime Historical Organizations
Africville Genealogical Society (entry in HRL Organizations Directory)
Black Cultural Society
Black History Month Association: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Heritage/BHMA/
Black Loyalist Heritage Society: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Heritage/BHMA/