The Library and Archives Canada have published Under a Northern Star , an important website linking seven collections of documents related to blacks in Canada. It includes my own essay on Sir James Douglas and his role in inviting black pioneers to British Columbia.
Publishers of Black History and Literature
Books on Black History and Literature
Black History and Culture Sites
- Blacks in the West
- A Man Called Moses, by Bill Gallaher
- Alexander Family Data
Fonds dealing with Charles and Nancy Alexander and their descendants. - Anti-Slavery Movement in Canada - Library and Archives Canada
- Association for the Study of African American Life and History
- BC Archives Vital Event Indexes
- BC Black History Awareness Society
- Black Citizenship Applicants, Victoria 1858
- Black Community Archives - James R. Johnston Chair
- Black Historical and Cultural Society
- Black History in BC
Two-minute video. - British Columbia GenWeb
- Buxton National Historic Site Ontario Canada Underground Railroad
- Canadian Encyclopedia: Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
- Canadian Pacific Northwest
- Centre of Integration for African Immigrants
- Charles and Nancy Alexander
A 9-minute video about their lives, as told by descendant Doug Hudlin. - Chatham-Kent Black Historical Society
- City of Vancouver Archives - Search
- Coroner's Records Guide (1859-1970)
- Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar (1823-1915) (BlackPast.org)
- Go Do Some Great Thing
Short preview of Anthony Brown's documentary - Hendrix House Concert
- Hidden History: Black History of the Yukon
- Hogan's Alley Before the Demolition
- Hogan's Alley Memorial Project
- John Craven Jones
- John Giscome at Summit Lake
- Mifflin Wistar Gibbs (1823–1915) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
- Moses, me and murder, by Ann Walsh
- Northern Brother
- Notable Kentucky African Americans (Harriet Gibbs Marshall)
- Oberlin Census of 1850
- Oberlin City Directory Database
- Oberlin College: Catalogue and Record of Colored Students, 1835-62
- Oberlin College: Negro Graduates, 1844-1908
- Ross Bay Cemetery Search
- Salt Spring Island Archives
- Selected Bibliography of African Canadian History
- Some Missing Pages: The Black Community in the History of Quebec and Canada
My Blogs
- Ask the English Teacher
Questions and answers about English usage. - Bridging the Income Gap
Why inequality is hazardous to your health. - Camila Vallejo in English
Tracking a political phenomenon - Finnish Education Forum
What Finland is doing in the schools. - H5N1
News and resources about avian flu - Jou Tou and Silk Road Music
About a couple of remarkable Vancouver world-music groups. - Neat Stuff
Serendipitous discoveries around the Web. - On Education
Schools for a civil society. - Pioneers
Blogging the Black pioneers of British Columbia - Sointula
"Place of Harmony"—a remarkable community on BC's central coast. - Write a Novel
An online guide for fiction writers. - Sell Your Nonfiction Book
And use online resources to research, write, and publish it. - Writing Fiction
Advice and suggestions on how to write and sell short stories and fiction. - Writing for the Web
About the surprising new genres emerging on the Web.
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