Autobiographies / Biographies / Personal Testimonies
Armstrong, Bromley. Bromley: Tireless Champion of Just Causes. 2000.
Barris, Alex. Oscar Peterson: A Musical Biography. Toronto: HarperCollins, 2002.
Best, Carrie. That Lonesome Road: The Autobiography of Carrie Best. New Glasgow, Nova Scotia: Clarion Publishing, 1977.
Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia. (Editor) Traditional Lifetime Stories. A Collection of Black Memories: Vol. 1. Dartmouth: Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, 1987.
Blackwood, Yvonne. Into Africa: A Personal Journey. Abbeyfield Publishers, 2000.
Braithwaite, Rella. Some Black Men: Profiles of over 100 Black Men in Canada . Scarborough , Ont.: Marlon Press, 1999.
Carnegie, Herb. A Fly in a Pail of Milk: The Herb Carnegie Story (memoirs) 1997.
Carter, Rubin "Hurricane". The 16th round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472. Toronto, Penguin, 1991.
Clarke, Austin. Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack. (memoirs) 1980.
Foster, Cecil. Island Wings: A Memoir 1998.
Gairey, Harry. A Black Man's Toronto 1914 - 1980: The Reminiscences of Harry Gairey. Toronto: The Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1981.
Henson, Josiah. The Life of Josiah Henson: Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada. Dresden, Ontario: Uncle Tom's Museum, 1984.
Holas, Patricia. Millennium Minds: 100 Black Canadians. 2000
Lees, Gene. Oscar Peterson: The Will to Swing. Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys Limited, 1988.
MacEwan, Grant. John Ware's Cow Country. Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1973.
Manning, William. My Name is Eva: A Biography of Eva Smith , 1995.
Marin, Reva. Oscar: the Life and Music of Oscar Peterson. (for ages 11+) Toronto: Groundwood Books, 2003.
Meyler, Peter, Editor. Broken Shackles: Old Man Henson - From Slavery to Freedom. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2003
Moore, Donald. Donald Moore: An Autobiography. Toronto: Williams-Wallace, 1985.
Newby, Dalyce. Anderson Ruffin Abbott (Canadian Medical Lives). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.
Newby, Dalyce. Anderson Ruffin Abbott: First Afro-Canadian Doctor. Markham: Associated Medical Services, Incorporated and Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1998.
Pachai, Bridglal. William Hall: Winner of the Victoria Cross. Tantallon: Four East Publications, 1995.
Peterson, Oscar & Richard Palmer. A Jazz Odyssey The Life Of Oscar Peterson. Continuum Press, 2002.
Sandiford, Robert Edison. Sand for Snow: a Caribbean-Canadian Chronicle. Montr éal: Livres DC = DC Books, c2003. (185 p.)
Sammons, Vivian. Blacks in Science and Medicine. USA: Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, 1990.
Silvera, Makeda, Editor. Silenced: Talks with Working Class West Indian Women About their Lives and Struggles as Domestic Workers in Canada, 1983
Williams, Dawn. Who's who in Black Canada : Black Success and Black Excellence in Canada : a Contemporary Directory . Toronto : D.P. Williams & Associates, 2002.
Wiwa, Ken. In the Shadow of a Saint. (memoir of his relation with his father, Ken Saro-Wiwa) 2000.