I'm very happy to link to Black Strathcona, a new website about the history of Vancouver's black community. The interactive map on the home page includes links to ten stories about that community, and it includes a page that will become a blog.
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.
Read The Tyee
March 2021
Recent Posts
- Edward Rogers just wanted a beer. He ended up battling racism in BC
- Anny Scoones: History of Black pioneers reads like adventure story
- Reissued classic tells story of BC’s early Black settlers
- Uncovering BC's Black history: Who is Mifflin Gibbs?
- Who is Mifflin Gibbs? Uncovering BC’s Black history
- Four decades on, a book about BC's centuries-old Black history is updated for the 21st century
- A talk about the Black pioneers to the San Francisco Historical Society
- BC's Black pioneers' story told in Crawford Kilian's Go Do Some Great Thing
- North Van longshoreman a major force in early labour battles
- Remembering the secret history of BC's Black pioneers
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