History and Current Affairs

Canada
The Maritimes
Ontario
Quebec & New France
The West

History and Current Affairs - Canada:

• Akwani, Obi O. Winning Over Racism. Ottawa: Achama Communications, 1995.
• Anderson, W. W. The New Newcomers. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1987.
• Bertley, Leo. Canada and its People of African Descent. Peirrefonds, 1977.
• Black Presence in Multi-Ethnic Canada. Vancouver: Centre for the Study of Curriculum and Instruction, University of British Columbia; Toronto: OISE, 1978.
• Brown, Paul Fehimw. Ces Canadiens Oublies
• Bramble, Linda. Black Fugitive Slaves in Early Canada. St. Catharines: Vanwell Publishing Limited, 1988.
• ---. "The Canadian Negro, A Historical Assessment." Journal of Negro History 53, no. 4 (October 1968): 283-300.
• ---. "The Canadian Negro, A Historical Assessment Part II: The Problem of Identity." Journal of Negro History 54, no 1 (January 1969): 1-18.
• Carter, Velma, and Wilma Leffler Akili. The Window of Our Memories. St. Albert, Alberta: B.C.R. Society of Alberta, 1981.
• Douglas, Althea  and J. Creighton Douglas. Canadian Railway Records: A Guide for Genealogists.  Toronto: Ontario Genealogical Society, 1994. 64 pages
• D'Oyley, Vincent. Black Presence in a Multi-Ethnic Canada. Vancouver: Centre for the Study of Curriculum and Instruction, University of British Columbia, 1978.
• Elgersman, Maureen G. Unyielding Spirits: Black Women and Slavery in Early Canada and Jamaica (Crosscurrents in African American History, volume 6, 1996)
• Ffrench, Robert. In Our Time: African Canadians' Achievement. Dartmouth: Black Star Books, 1994.
• Ffrench, Robert. Out of the Past: Into the Future. Dartmouth: Pride Communications, 1994.
• Govia, Francine and Helen Lewis. Blacks in Canada: In Search of the Promised Land: A Bibliographical Guide to the History of Blacks in Canada. Edmonton: Harambee Centres Canada, 1988.
• Carter, Velma and Levero Carter. The Black Canadians: Their History and Contributions. Revised Edition. Edmonton: Reidmore Books Inc., 1993.
• Cultural Crisis: a Look at Cultural Impacts in Canada, the Caribbean and England. Toronto: Calypso House, 1981.
• Greaves, Ida C. The Negro in Canada. Montreal: McGill University, Department of Economics and Political  Science, 1930.
• Grizzle, Stanley G. My Name's Not George: The Story of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in Canada. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1998.
• Head, Wilson and E. Lee. The Black Presence in the Canadian Mosaic. Toronto: Ontario Human Rights Commission, 1975.
• Henry, Frances, et al. The Colour of Democracy: Racism in Canadian Society. Toronto: Harcourt Brace and Co,, 1995.
• Hill, Daniel. The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada. Agincourt: Book Society of Canada, 1981.
• Hill, Lawrence. Women of Vision: The Story of the Canadian Negro Women's Association 1951 - 1976. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1996.
• Hill, Lawrence. Trials and Triumphs: The Story of African-Canadians. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1993.
• A History of Blacks in Canada. Waterloo: Ministry of Supply and Services Canada, 1980.Kelly, Jenny. Under The Gaze: Learning To Be Black In White Society . Halifax : Fernwood Pub.,1998. (144 p.)
• Hochschild, Adam. Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves. New York: Mariner Books - Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005.
• Kelly, Jenny. Under The Gaze: Learning To Be Black In White Society . Halifax : Fernwood Pub.,1998. (144 p.)
• Krauter, Joseph F., and Morris Davis. Minority Canadians: Ethnic Groups. Ontario: Methuen, 1978.
• Lutz, Norma Jean. Harriet Tubman: Leader of the Underground Railroad. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2001.
• McClain, Paula Denice. Alienation and Resistance: the Political Behaviour of Afro-Canadians. Palo Alto: R&E Research Associates, 1979.
• Porter, Kenneth. "Negroes in the Fur Trade." Minnesota History 15 (1934): 421-433.
• Preserver. Dartmouth: Black Cultural Society of Nova Scotia, 19XX.
• Mensah, Joseph. Black Canadians: History, Experience, Social Conditions. Fernwood Publishing, 2002.
• ---. Racial Discrimination in Canada: The Black Experience. Ottawa: The Canadian Historical Association, 1985.
• Ripley, C. Peter. The Abolitionist Papers: Canada 1830 - 1865, 1986.
• Ruck, Calvin. Canada's Black Battalion No. 2 Construction 1916-1920. Halifax: Nimbus, 1987.
• Ruggles, Clifton and Olivia Rovinescu. Outsider Blues: A Voice from the Shadows. Halifax: Fernwood Pub., 1996.
• Schama, Simon. Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution. Toronto: Viking Canada, 2005.
• Talbot, Carol. Growing Up Black in Canada. Toronto: Williams-Wallace, 1984.
• Thompson, Colin A. Blacks in Deep Snow: Black Pioneers in Canada. 1979.
• Thorvaldson, Patricia Ed Identity: The Black Experience in Canada Toronto: Ontario Educational Communications Authority, in association with Gage Educational Publishing Ltd., 1979.
• Tulloch, Headley. Black Canadians: A Long Line of Fighters.
• Walker, James W. St. G. Identity: the Black Experience in Canada. 1979.
• Walker, James W. St. G.. The History of Blacks in Canada: A Study Guide for Teachers and... Hull: Canadian Government Publishing Centre, 1980.
• Walker, James st. G. Racial Discrimination in Canada: the Black Experience. 1985
• ---. The West Indians in Canada. Toronto: The Canadian Historical Association, 1984.
• Winks, Robin W. The Blacks in Canada: A History. Second Edition. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997.
• ---. A History of Blacks in Canada: A Study Guide for Teachers and Students. Hull: Canadian Government Publishing Centre, 1980.

History and Current Affairs - The Maritimes:

• Africville Genealogy Society. The Spirit of Africville. Halifax: Formac Publishing Company, 1992.
• 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.
• Boyd, Frank S. A Brief History of the Coloured Baptists of Nova Scotia. Halifax: Afro Nova Scotia Enterprises, 1976.
• Bymmer, D. The Jamaican Maroons: How They Came to Nova Scotia: How They Left It. 1898. Reprint. Toronto: Canadian House, 1968.
• Campbell, Mavis C. (Ed.) Nova Scotia and the Fighting Maroons: A Documentary History. Williamsburg, 1990.
• Clairmont, Donald H. and Dennis W. Magill.  Africville Relocation Report.  Halifax, Nova Scotia: Institute of Public Affairs, 1971.  Africville Relocation Report.  2005.  Dalhousie University.  13 Sept. 2006  (http://www.library.dal.ca/ebooks/africville/) - available online!
• Clairmont, Donald. Africville Relocation Report: Supplement. Halifax: Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousie University, 1973.
• Clairmont, Donald and William Dennis Magill. Africville: The Life and Death of a Canadian Black Community. Toronto: ____, 1987.
• Clairmont, Donald, et al. The Spirit of Africville. Halifax: Formac Publishing Company, 1992.
• Clifford, Mary Louise. From Slavery to Freetown: Black Loyalists After the American Revolution. McFarland, 1999.
• The Condition of the Negroes of Halifax City, Nova Scotia: a Study. Halifax: The Institute, 1962.
• Farnsworth, Clyde H. A Town Called Halifax and the Conspiracy Theory. 1995.
• Grant, John N. Black Nova Scotians. Halifax: Nova Scotia Museum, 1980.
• Henry, Frances. Forgotten Canadians: The Blacks of Nova Scotia. Don Mills: Longman, 1973.
• Hochschild, Adam. Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves. New York: Mariner Books - Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005.
• Hornby, Jim. Black Islanders: Prince Edward Island's Historical Black Community. Island Studies Series, No. 3. Charlottetown: Institute of Island Studies, 1991.
• Jenkins, David. Black Zion: The Return of Afro-Americans and West Indians to Africa. London: Wildwood House, 1975.
• Kelly, Jenny. Under The Gaze: Learning To Be Black In White Society . Halifax : Fernwood Pub.,1998. (144 p.)
• MacKinnon, Neil. This Unfriendly Soil: The Loyalist Experience in Nova Scotia 1783-1791. Kingston, 1986.
• McKerrow, Peter. History of the Colonial Baptists of Nova Scotia. 1985.
• ---. "Negro School Segregation in Ontario and Nova Scotia." Canadian Historical Review 50, no. 2 (June 1969): 164-191.
• Nelson, Jennifer J. Razing Africville: a geography of racism . 2008.
• Pachai, Bridglal. Beneath the Clouds of the Promised Land: The Survival of Nova Scotia's Blacks. Halifax: The Black Educators, 1990.
•  Beneath the Clouds of the Promised Land: Volume 1 1660-1800: The Survival of Nova Scotia's Blacks. Halifax: The Black Educators Association of Nova Scotia, 1987.
• Pachai, Bridglal. Beneath the Clouds of the Promised Land: Volume 2 1800-1989: The Survival of Nova Scotia's Blacks. Halifax: The Black Educators Association of Nova Scotia, 1990.
• Pachai, Bridglal. Peoples of the Maritimes: Blacks. Tantallon: Four East Publications, 1993.
• Saunders, Charles R. Share and Care: the Story of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children. Halifax: Nimbus, 1994.
• Remember Africville. Dir. Shelagh Mackenzie. Pro. Daryl Gray & Shelagh Mackenzie. (Documentary Film 35 minutes) National Film Board, 1991.
• Robertson, Marion. King's Bounty: a History of Early Shelburne,  Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia Museum: Halifax, 1983.
• Saunders, Charles R. Black And Bluenose : The Contemporary History of a Community . East Lawrencetown ,: Pottersfield Press, 1999.
• Schama, Simon. Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution. Toronto: Viking Canada, 2005.
• Spray, W. A. The Blacks in New Brunswick. Fredericton: Brunswick Press, 1972.
• Walker, James W. St. G. The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone 1783-1870. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.
• Whitfield, Harvey Amani. Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815–1860. Vermont: University of Vermont Press / University Press of New England, 224 pp. 2 maps. ( A study of the emergence of community among African Americans in Nova Scotia.)
• Whitfield, Harvey Amani. "The Development of Black Refugee Identity in Nova Scotia, 1813 - 1850". Left History: Issue 10.2 (Fall. 2005): 9-31.
• Whitfield, Harvey Amani. “African and New World African Immigration to Mainland Nova Scotia, 1749-1816,” Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 7 (2004): 102-111.
• Whitfield, Harvey Amani.“Black Refugee Communities in Early Nineteenth Century Nova Scotia,” Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 6 (2003): 92-109.
• Whitfield, Harvey Amani.“’We can do as we like here’: An Analysis of Self-Assertion and Agency among Black Refugees in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1813-1821,” Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region 32 (2002): 29-49.
• Wilson, Ellen Gibson. John Clarkson and the African Adventure. London, 1980.

 

History and Current Affairs - Ontario:

• Brand, Dionne. No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario 1920s - 1950s. Toronto: Women's Press, 1991.
• Brode,Patrick Death in the Queen City: Clara Ford on Trial, 1895. ( 192 pages) Natural Heritage Books, 2005.
• Brown-Kubisch, Linda. The Queen's Bush Settlement: Black Pioneers 1839-1865. 352 pages, Natural Heritage Books, 2004.
• Cooper, Afua. "The Search for Mary Bibb, Black woman Teacher in Nineteenth-Century Canada West," Ontario History 83 (March 1991) 39-54. Reprinted in "We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible," A Reader in Black Women's History, ed. Darlene Clark Hine, (Carlson Publishing, 1995) 171-185
• Cooper, Afua. "Portrait of Julia Turner as a Teacher: Ontario's Black Community and Education, 1845-1900," in Ed Montigny, ed. Papers in Post-Confederation Ontario History (Forthcoming)
• Cooper, A. A. P. (2000). Doing Battle in Freedom's Cause: Henry Bibb, Abolitionism, Race Uplife, and Black Manhood, 1842-1854. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Toronto.
• Cooper, John. Season Of Rage: Hugh Burnett And The Struggle For Civil Rights. Toronto : Tundra Books, 2005. (children’s book re Dresden )
• Hill, Donna, ed. A Black Man's Toronto 1914-1980: The Reminiscences of Harry Gairey. Toronto: The Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1981.
• Hill, Lawrence. Women of Vision: The Story of the Canadian Negro Women's Association 1951 - 1976. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1996.
• Hubbard, Stephen L. Against All Odds: The Story of William Peyton Hubbard, Black Leader and Municipal Reformer, 1987.
• Lind, Jane. The Underground Railroad: Anna Maria Weems. Toronto: Grolier, 1990.
• Lutz, Norma Jean. Harriet Tubman: Leader of the Underground Railroad. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2001.
• Meyler, David, Peter Meyler. A Stolen Life: Searching for Richard Pierpoint. Natural Heritage Books, 1999.
• Merritt, Susan E. Her Story: Women from Canada's Past (section on Mary Ann Shadd)
• Meyler, Peter, Editor. Broken Shackles: Old Man Henson - From Slavery to Freedom. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2003.
• ---. "Negro School Segregation in Ontario and Nova Scotia." Canadian Historical Review 50, no. 2 (June 1969): 164-191.
• Parnall, Maggie. Black History in the Niagara Peninsula. Jordan Station: Self published: 1996.
• Prince, Bryan. A Shadow on the Household. McClelland & Stewart, 2009. (Re the Weems family's struggle to escape slavery and make a new life in Canada)
• Rhodes, Jane. Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the 19th Century. Indiana University Press, 1998.
• Robins, Arlie C. Legacy to Buxton. Chatham: Ideal Printing, 1983.
• Robinson, Gwendolyn. John W. Robinson. Seek the Truth: A Story of Chatham's Black Community. 1989
• Riendeau, Roger. An Enduring Heritage: Black contributions to Early Ontario.Toronto: Dundurn, 1984.
• The Right Candidate for Rosedale. Dir. Bonnie Sherr Klein and Ann Henderson. National Film Board, 1979. 32 min. 52 sec. The story of Anne Cools, a Black woman, and her bid for the Liberal Party nomination in the Toronto riding of Rosedale.
• Sadlier, Rosemary. Mary Ann Shadd: Publisher, Editor, Teacher, Lawyer, Suffragette. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1995.
• Sadlier, Rosemary. Tubman: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad: Her Life in the United States and Canada. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1997.
• Shadd, Adrienne. and Afua Cooper and Karolyn Smardz Frost. The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! Toronto: Natural Heritage, 2002.
• Shadd, Mary Ann. (1823-1892). A Plea for Emigration, or Notes of Canada West. Toronto: Mercury Press, 1998.
• Silverman, Jason H. "Mary Ann Shadd and the Search for Equality." A Nation of Immigrants: Women, Workers and Communities in Canadian History: 1840s - 1930s. Eds. Franca Iacovetta et al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.
• Silverman, Jason H. Unwelcome Guests: Canada West's Response to American Fugitive Slaves, 1800 - 1865. (Series in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity)
• Slaney, Catherine. Family Secrets: Crossing the Colour Line. Foreword By: Daniel G. Hill III (264 pages), Natural Heritage Books, 2003 .
• Stouffer, Allen P. The Light of Nature and the Law  of God: Antislavery in Ontario, 1833-1877. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992.
• Thomas, Owen A. Niagara's Freedom Trail: A Guide to African-Canadian History on the Niagara Peninsula. Niagara Economic and Tourism Corporation, 1996
• Ulman, Victor. Look to the North Star: A Life of William King. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1969.
• Walls, Bryan E. The Road that Led to Somewhere: A Documented Novel. Windsor: Olive, 1980.
• Winks, Robin W. et al., intro. Four Fugitive Slave Narratives. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1969.
  
  
  

History and Current Affairs - Quebec and New France:

• Bertley, Leo. Montreal's Oldest Black Congregation: Union Church, 3007 Delisle Street. Pierrefonds: Bilongo, 1976.
• Cooper, Afua. The Hanging Of Angélique : The Untold Story Of Canadian Slavery And The Burning Of Old Montréal. Toronto: HarperCollins, 2006.
• Diallo, Amadou. La Verite a Cacher. St.-Hubert: A.M. Diallo, 1994.
• DeJean, Paul. Haitians in Quebec. (Translated and with a foreward by Max Dorsinville.) Ottawa: Tecumseh Press, 1980.
• DeJean, Paul. Les Haïtiens au Québec. Montréal: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 1978.
• Denby, Charles. Indignant Heart: A Black Worker's Journal. Montréal: Black Rose, 1979.
• Eber, Dorothy. The Computer Centre Party: Canada Meets Black Power. Montréal: Tundra Books, 1969.
• Forsythe, Dennis, ed. Let the Niggers Burn: Racism in Canada. Montréal: Black Rose, 1971.
• Gay, Daniel. Des empreintes noires sur la neige blanche: les noires au Québec (1750-1900): Rapport final. Québec: Conseil Québécois de la Recherche Sociale, 1988.
• Gilmore, John. Swinging in Paradise: The Story of Jazz in Montreal. Montréal: Véhicule Press, 1988.
• Jean Baptiste, Jacqueline. Haitians in Canada - Aylsyin Nan Kanada. Ottawa: Minister of State Multiculturalism, 1979.
• Let the Niggers Burn!: The Sir George Williams University Affair and its Caribbean Aftermath. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1971.
• Mackey, Frank. Black Then: Blacks and Montreal, 1780-1880’s. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004.
• Tounkara, Foday M. Un Africain à Montréal. Paris: Pensée Universale, 1980.
• Williams, Dorothy. Blacks in Montreal: 1628-1986: an Urban Demography. Cowansville: Editions Yvon Blais, 1989.
• Williams, Dorothy. The Road to Now: A History of Blacks in Montreal. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1997.

 

History and Current Affairs - The West:

• Breen, David. The Canadian Prairie and West and the Ranching Frontier: 1874-1924. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983.
• Carter, Velma, and Wilma Leffler Akili. The Window of Our Memories. St. Albert, Alberta: B.C.R. Society of Alberta, 1981.
• Graham, Pat and Darryl Stevenson. The Black Experience in Manitoba: A Collection of Memories. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg School Division No. 1, 1993.
• Grow, Stewart. "The Blacks of Amber Valley: Negro Pioneering in Northern Alberta." Canadian Ethnic Studies 6, nos. 1-2 (1974): 17-38.
• Hundley, Ian. John Ware. Markham : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2006. (64 p.)
• Killian, Crawford. Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1978.
• Leaves from the Medicine Tree. High  River Pioneers' and Old Timers' Association. 1960.
• MacEwan, Grant. John Ware's Cow Country. Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1973.
• Merritt, Susan E. Her Story: Women from Canada's Past II (section on Sylvia Stark, pioneer of B.C.)
• Shepard, R. Bruce. Deemed Unsuitable (Blacks from Oklahoma Move to the Canadian Prairies...) Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1997.
• Troper, Harold Martin. "The Creek-Negroes and Canadian Immigration 1909-1911." The Canadian Historical Review 53, no. 3 (September, 1972): 272-288.