Unit Three: Studying Africa through the Humanities
Module Fifteen: Africa and the World
Teacher's Edition
Web-Sites on Africans in Canada:
Here is a list of Web-Sites related to Africans in Canada over the past 300 years.
Ontario Black History Online!
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/obho/
"The Ontario Black History Society has been at the forefront of African-Canadian
educational information for over 20 years. It was founded in 1978 as a non-profit,
charitable organization dedicated to the preservation, promotion and study
of Black history."
Black Settlement in Nova Scotia
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/arch/blkdata.htm
"Remembering Black Loyalists is a virtual exhibit based upon the physical
exhibit of the same title produced by the History Section of the Nova Scotia
Museum in 1999 - 2000. Archaeology at Birchtown: an excavation at an early
Black Loyalist settlement."
CanadaNoir
http://pages.infinit.net/puissant/CanadaNoir/home.html
A major Canadian web site based on Afro-Canadian content. Claims to be the
only one of its kind on the Internet. "We decided to take advantage
of affiliate programs offered by Chapters and Amazon.com to create an Afro-Canadian
bookstore called the CanadaNoir BookStore."
Canadian Series of North American Negro
http://www.niica.on.ca/csonan/
This site is dedicated to providing information concerning Black World history,
with a focus on Black Canadian history and perspectives.
Black Historical & Cultural Society of British Columbia
The Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers Project, UCLA
http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/mgpp/life.asp
Montreal Community Contact: Black Studies Online
http://www.black-studies.org/
"For well over 20 years, the Black Studies Centre (BSC) has been providing
a wide range of services to the Montreal community and to its various institutions."
Portia White Home Page
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~jay/pages/pwhite.html
"This "Web article" is based on a lecture delivered to the
Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on September
15, 1992. It is essentially a biographical sketch of Portia White, a singer
(contralto) who was well known in Nova Scotia, Toronto and beyond in the
1940s and '50s."
CDC: Black Loyalists
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/blackloyalists/
"Welcome to the Black Loyalists Digital Collections site. This site
explores an untold story of our nation's history: how Canada became the home
of the first settlements of free blacks outside Africa."
TOPIC: Heritage and Tour Sites
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Canadian Black Heritage in the Third Millennium
http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~gpieters/blklinks.html
"Canadian Black Heritage in the Third Millennium was created by educator,
Gary Pieters, as an online resource for students researching Black History
from a Canadian Perspective. This online resource on Black Heritage categorizes
past, present and future events"
Remembering Black Loyalists, Black Communities
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/blackloyalists/
"Between 1783 and 1785, more than 3000 Black persons came to Nova Scotia
as a direct result of the American Revolution. They came from slavery and
war to take control of their lives, making choices within the limits they
faced."
African Heritage Page (Nova Scotia)
http://www.library.dal.ca/subjects/CanBlack.htm
Dalhousie University African Heritage Month resource pages.
Archaeology at Birchtown, Nova Scotia
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/arch/sites/birch/
"The early history of Nova Scotia's Black communities, such as Birchtown,
is almost without exception incomplete and is usually based on written records
of the time."
Black Loyalist Heritage Society
http://www.blackloyalist.com/
"The Black Loyalist Heritage Society is committed to discovering, interpreting,
safeguarding and promoting the history and heritage of the Black Loyalists."
TOPIC: Black Organizations in Nova Scotia
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African Canadian Services Division
http://acs.ednet.ns.ca/
African Canadian Employment Clinic NS
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/NorthBranch/africana.html
Black Cultural Center for Nova Scotia
http://www.bccns.com/
Black Educators Association of Nova Scotia
http://acs.ednet.ns.ca//bea.htm
Black Organizations and Web Sites in Nova Scotia
http://www.library.dal.ca/subjects/NSBlack.htm
Black Business Initiative - Nova Scotia
http://www.bbi.ns.ca/
Black History Month Association
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Heritage/BHMA/
TOPIC: Black Associations in Canada
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Montreal Association of Black Business Persons and Professionals
(M.A.B.B.P.) http://www.mabbp.org/
"A federally incorporated non-profit organization active within the
Montreal Black community for the past fifteen years. Its goals and objectives
are to increase the economic welfare of black persons in Montreal as well
as those in all other communities."
National Society of Black Engineers - University of Toronto
https://ulife.utoronto.ca/organizations/view/id/1863
National Society Of Black Engineers - McGill Chapter
http://www.nsbemcgill.org/
TOPIC: Black Educators and Education
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Quebec Board of Black Educators
http://www.qbbe.org/cms/
"At the forefront of education in Montreal's Black Community since 1969."
James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies
http://jamesrjohnstonchair.dal.ca/
"...established to bring Black culture, reality, perspectives, experiences
and concerns into the Academy."
Black Educators Association
http://www.thebea.ns.ca/
"B.E.A. is a volunteer non-profit organization formed to assist Black
communities throughout the province to develop strategies that are aimed
towards creating an equitable education system in Nova Scotia."
ACCES - African Canadian Continuing Education Society
http://www.acceskenya.org/
"ACCES is a non-profit society dedicated to helping young Africans obtain
the skills and education needed to benefit themselves and their society."
TOPIC: Black News and Media
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Share On-line
http://www.sharenews.com/
"Canada's largest ethnic newspaper."
The Afro News: The Voice of the Black Community
http://www.theafronews.com/
"The print edition of The Afro News is a 24 page tabloid size newspaper,
based in Vancouver BC, published by Black Theatre West, and distributed across
Canada."
BlackVoice
http://www.blackvoicenews.com/
"Blackvoice is a new Interactive Magazine for the African Canadian Community.
Our goal is ... to be ... a community centre where people from around the
world can gather and learn about our history and issues from a unique perspective."
TOPIC: Black Arts and Multimedia
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The Gospel Heirs
http://www.emd.ca/artists/gospelheirs.html
"The history of Afro-Canadians in Nova Scotia goes back well over two
centuries. One of Canada's premier gospel groups, the Nova Scotia based Gospel
Heirs, formed in 1976 as a four piece group and later expanded to eight members."
ACDAS The African-Canadian Dramatic Arts Society
http://www.cyberus.ca/~acdas/
"ACDAS was founded in January 1991 and incorporated as a nonprofit organization
in the same year. We aim to increase public awareness of African-Canadian
arts in the community at large by offering quality, diversified entertainment."
Sea Jam Records
http://www.jazzcanadiana.on.ca/SEAJAM.HTM
"Sea Jam Records was formed in 1990 by pianist Joe Sealy and bassist
Paul Novotny as a vehicle to release their first CD "Double Entendre" (released
January 21, 1991)."
Atlantic Region - Urban film documentaries
http://www.onf.ca/trouverunfilm/fichefilm.php?id=11935&v=h&lg=en&exp=${Atlantic}%20AND%20${Region}
African Canadian stories, poetry, essays and ...
http://members.tripod.com/lenxfarl/index.html
TOPIC: Underground Railway
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Ntl Archives of Canada: The Blacks, Anti-Slavery and the Underground
Railway
http://internauts.ca/~francis/undergroundrailway.htm
"The Blacks, Anti-Slavery and the Underground Railway: Black slaves
were brought to Canada as early as 1608. By 1759 there were more than 1,000
black slaves in the then New France."
Menare Foundation's NorthStar Website
http://www.ugrr.org/
"The Menare Foundation, Inc. is a national Non-profit organization dedicated
to the documentation, preservation, and restoration of Underground Railroad
safe-houses and environments."
The Underground Railroad: Canada in an International perspective
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/freedom/
Underground Railway: The March to Freedom
http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/~shirley/african/rails.html
"African American historian and author Anthony Cohen's tracing of one
of the Underground Railway routes into Ontario."
Taking a tour on the underground railway http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/1998/11/29/slaves981129.html
TOPIC: Anti-Racism Sites
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Ontario Black Anti-Racist Research Institute
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2381/
"This site brings to your attention several very important cases that
are before the Ontario Labour Relations Board, Ontario Human Rights Commission,
Superior Court of Justice (Divisional Court), Ontario Court of Appeal, the
Supreme Court of Canada, etc."
Canadian Race Relations Foundation
http://www.crr.ca/
"The purpose of the Foundation is to facilitate throughout Canada the
development, sharing and application of knowledge and expertise in order
to contribute to the elimination of racism and all forms of racial discrimination
in Canadian society."
Canadian Centre on Minority Affairs
http://www.wiserearth.org/organization/view/0c724e2ec3cebfaefabef14b0c5c8ed7
"An NGO established in 1990 to develop & promote social development & public
policy initiatives for the Caribbean Canadian community through research,
human resources development, public education, advocacy and international
cooperation."
TOPIC: Africville
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Return to Africville - This Morning
http://archives.cbc.ca/300c.asp?IDCat=69&IDDos=96&IDLan=1&IDMenu=69
Seaview Park, former site of Africville
http://www.mikecampbell.net/seaviewpark.htm
Africville
http://www.interlog.com/~urbanism/africville.html
SUNDIAL - Seaview Park
http://www.region.halifax.ns.ca/Community/PublicArt/dial.htm
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