RESOURCES &
BIBLIOGRAPHY
With the goal to spread African Awareness in BC and Canada, we have put together a comprehensive resource page, which includes an extensive bibliography. We hope that you find this useful on your pursuit for further education and enrichment on this very important subject.
We have categorized this page into general topics and where to find more information, as well as the bibliography for our online exhibits.
Canadian General Education Resources:
Although we have cited articles or segments from some of these sites in our exhibits, we feel that these site in general serve as a great educational tool to not only learn more about our Canadian-African past, but of Canadian history in general.
Slave Voyages Project -Emory University: www.slavevoyages.org
“Researching the Transatlantic Slave Trade” Lesson Plan (Eltis & Kadonsky): download here
UNESCO Slave Routes: https://en.unesco.org/themes/fostering-rights-inclusion/slave-route
604 Now. “A Brief History of How Gastown Got to Where It Is Today.” 604 Now, 3 Feb. 2018, 604now.com/gastown-vancouver-history.
Anderson, S. (February 26, 2019) Cloverdale park named for African-American settler:
Henry Houston Scott Park will preserve 100-year-old fruit trees belonging to settler family. Accessed December 24, 2020. https://www.surreynowleader.com/news/cloverdale-park-named-for-african-american-settler/
Anderson, S. (May 16, 2018) Cloverdale’s Scott family honoured at Surrey Centre Cemetery: Grave of pioneer family marked after 84 years. Accessed December 29, 2020. https://www.surreynowleader.com/community/cloverdales-scott-family-honoured-at-surrey-centre-cemetery/
“Black Communities in British Columbia: 1858-2008.” SFU Summit – Institutional Repository, summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/10679/Exhibit1.pdf. Accessed 3 Jan. 2021.
“Black History in Canada.” Library and Archives Canada, www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/history-ethnic-cultural/Pages/blacks.aspx. Accessed 4 Jan. 2021.
“Black in Vancouver: Identity Hard to Build, Says Professor.” CBC News (On The Coast), CBC News, 4 Feb. 2016, www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/black-vancouver-identity-1.3434896.
“Black Sleeping Car Porters.” CMHR, 26 Feb. 2020, humanrights.ca/story/sleeping-car-porters.
“Charles Edwin Seals ‘Charlie’ Sullivan.” Find A Grave, nl.findagrave.com/memorial/143530903/charles-edwin_seals-sullivan. Accessed 3 Jan. 2021.
City of Vancouver. Strathcona. Accessed December 30, 2020. https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/strathcona.aspx
Compton, Wayde. After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region. 1st Edition, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011.
Creative Cultural Collaboration Society. Accessed January 3, 2021. About. Black Strathcona. http://blackstrathcona.com/about/
Establishment, The. “The Black Women Who Helped Build Canada – The Establishment.” Medium, 26 Jan. 2019, medium.com/the-establishment/the-black-women-who-helped-build-canada-ed8e08e2dfde.
“Deas Island Cannery | BC Canning | Finlay, Durham, & Brodie.” From Tides to Tins, 8 Feb. 2019, tidestotins.ca/cannery/deas-island-bc-canning-finlay-durham-brodie.
Farris, Andrew. “The Lifeguard Joe Fortes.” On This Spot, onthisspot.ca/cities/vancouver/joefortes. Accessed 4 Jan. 2021.
Foster, Cecil. They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters. Biblioasis, 2019.
Gastown.org. The Original Vancouver: Then & Now. Accessed December 29, 2020. https://gastown.org/about/history/
- Keith Ralston, “DEAS, JOHN SULLIVAN,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 10, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed December 22, 2020, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/deas_john_sullivan_10E.html.
Hendrix, J. (2008, March 11) The Blood of Entertainers: The Life and Times of Jimi Hendrix’s Paternal Grandparents. Retrieved from https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/blood-entertainers-life-and-times-jimi-hendrixs-paternal-grandparents/
“John Sullivan Deas.” BC Black History – EARLIEST PIONEERS (1858-1899), bcblackhistory.ca/john-sullivan-deas. Accessed 3 Jan. 2021.
lamiasabina.blogspot.com. “East End Irredenta – Strathcona North of Hastings – Part 2.” When An Old House Whispers…, 4 Jan. 2021, househistorian.blogspot.com/2010/09/east-end-irredenta-strathcona-north-of_05.html.
Langley Heritage Society (April 17, 2019) New Park Honours Henry Houston Scott – Born a Slave. Accessed December 29, 2020. https://www.langleyheritage.ca/2019/04/17/new-park-honours-henry-houston-scott-born-a-slave/
Laniwurm. “Elijah Scurry –.” Past Tense, 22 Apr. 2011, pasttensevancouver.wordpress.com/tag/elijah-scurry
Laniwurm. “The Origins of Jazz in Vancouver.” Past Tense, 11 Nov. 2015, pasttensevancouver.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/the-origins-of-jazz-in-vancouver.
“Martha C French Scurry (1849-1911) – Find a…” Find a Grave, nl.findagrave.com/memorial/26325300/martha-c-scurry. Accessed 4 Jan. 2021
Montgomery, Marc. “The Story of the Black Porters on Canadian Railways.” RCI | English, 23 Jan. 2019, www.rcinet.ca/en/2019/01/23/the-story-of-the-black-porters-on-canadian-railways.
Morley, Alan. Vancouver: From Milltown to Metropolis. 3rd ed., Mitchell Press, 1974., pages 49, 79.
Native Daughters of British Columbia. Accessed January 3, 2021. History. Old Hastings Mill Store Museum. https://hastingsmillmuseum.ca/our-history
Pasttensevancouver. “Beatty Lane, 1921,” 18 Mar. 2017, pasttensevancouver.tumblr.com/post/158540828872/beattylane.
Pasttensevancouver. “Pasttensevancouver.” Past Tense, 12 Dec. 2013, pasttensevancouver.tumblr.com/post/69729155814/george-paris-george-paris-was-a-black-man-who.
Russwurm, Lani. “A History of Deviant Alleys in Vancouver.” Forbidden Vancouver, 22 Apr. 2020, forbiddenvancouver.ca/blog/history-deviant-alleys-vancouver.
Russwurm, Lani. (October 27, 2017) Gastown. Accessed December 30, 2020. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/gastown#
“Sleeping Car Porters in Canada.” The Canadian Encyclopedia, www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sleeping-car-porters-in-canada. Accessed 4 Jan. 2021.
Smith, Lisa Anne, and Barbara Rogers. Our Friend Joe: The Joe Fortes Story. Illustrated, Ronsdale Press, 2012.
Surrey Historical Society. 2018, February 16) Black History Month: Honouring a former slave family in Surrey. Accessed December 24, 2020. https://www.bchistory.ca/black-history-month-honouring-a-former-slave-family-in-surrey/
University of British Columbia. Accessed January 3, 2021. Course:GEOG350/2010WT2/Strathcona Vancouver. https://wiki.ubc.ca/Course:GEOG350/2010WT2/Strathcona_Vancouver
“Vancouver.” The Canadian Encyclopedia, 12 Mar. 2019, www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/vancouver.
Vancouver Heritage Foundation. “Hogan’s Alley •.” Vancouver Heritage Foundation, 12 June 2020, www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org/place-that-matters/hogans-alley.
Walling, Savannah. “Black History.” Heart of the City Festival, 8 Feb. 2011, www.heartofthecityfestival.com/dtes-history/black-history.
“Who Are the Women Who’ve Looked After Canada’s Children?” CBC – Secret Life of Canada – The Secret Life of Canada Looks at the Changing Face of Caregivers in Canada., CBC Podcasts, 27 Aug. 2019, www.cbc.ca/radio/secretlifeofcanada/who-are-the-women-who-ve-looked-after-canada-s-children-1.5261955.
Wikipedia contributors. “History of Vancouver.” Wikipedia, 2 Jan. 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Vancouver.
Zucchi, John and Canadian Historical Association. A History of Ethnic Enclaves in Canada. Canadian Historical Association, 2007. https://cha-shc.ca/_uploads/5c374f720fa95.pdf
“Barkerville.Ca.” City of Barkerville Website, 17 Feb. 2015, www.barkerville.ca.
Cartwright, Peggy. Black Pioneers in Gold Rush Days. Victoria, Manning Press, 1993
Crescenzi, Nicole. “Black History Month: The Alexander Family Was among the First Black Pioneers in B.C.” Victoria News, 6 Feb. 2019, www.vicnews.com/news/black-history-month-the-alexander-family-were-some-of-the-first-black-pioneers-in-b-c.
Gallaher, Bill. A Man Called Moses: The Curious Life of Wellington Delaney Moses. TouchWood Editions, 2010.
Gould, Jan. Women of British Columbia. Canadian First, Hancock House Pub Ltd, 1975.
“History.” First Baptist Victoria, www.firstbaptistvictoria.org/history. Accessed 4 Jan. 2021.
Kay, Maclean. “The Victoria Pioneer Rifles.” The Orca, 12 June 2020, theorca.ca/visiting-pod/the-victoria-pioneer-rifles.
Kay, Maclean. “British Columbia: Refuge for Political Exiles?” The Orca, 26 Nov. 2018, theorca.ca/resident-pod/british-columbia-refuge-for-political-exiles.
Kay, Maclean. “Black Colonists: The First Non-British Settlers.” The Orca, 12 June 2020, theorca.ca/visiting-pod/black-colonists-the-first-non-british-settlers.
Kilian, Crawford, and Adam Rudder. Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia. 3rd ed., Harbour Publishing, 2021.
Smallshaw, Brian. “Salt Spring Island Archives.” Salt Spring Island Archives, www.saltspringarchives.com. Accessed 4 Jan. 2021.
Wong, May. City in Colour: Rediscovered Stories of Victoria’s Multicultural Past. Canadian First, Touchwood Editions, 2018.
Marla. “Fashionable Haircutting, Gold Rush Style.” Marla on the Move, 28 Feb. 2020, marlaonthemove.com/2020/02/28/fashionable-haircutting-gold-rush-style.
“Mifflin Gibbs.” The Canadian Encyclopedia, www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mifflin-gibbs. Accessed 4 Jan. 2021.
“Shady Creek Cemetery.” Old Cemeteries Society of Victoria, 15 July 2019, oldcem.bc.ca/cem/shady-creek-cemetery.
Smallshaw, Brian. “Estes – Stark Collection.” Saltspring Archives, saltspringarchives.com/Estes_Stark_Family. Accessed 3 Jan. 2021.
The Tyee. “The Barber Sleuth of Old Barkerville.” The Tyee, 9 Feb. 2009, thetyee.ca/Books/2009/02/09/BarberSleuth.
University of British Columbia. “Negro Settlement in British Columbia, 1858-1871.” UBC Library Open Collections, 1951, open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0106943.
Barrick, Michael. “New Delhi Cabaret, Vancouver.” Live Journal, 19 May 2010, mbarrick.livejournal.com/917641.html.
Canada’s Historic Places. “Fountain Chapel.” Canada’s Historic Places, www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=10695. Accessed 17 Jan. 2021.
CBC News. “Remembering Hogan’s Alley, Hub of Vancouver’s Black Community.” CBC News, 14 Feb. 2016, www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/remembering-hogan-s-alley-hub-of-vancouver-s-black-community-1.3448080.
Chapman, Aaron. “Ten Legends of Vancouver’s Penthouse Nightclub.” The Tyee, 8 Dec. 2012, thetyee.ca/Books/2012/12/08/Penthouse-Nightclub.
Compton, Wayde. “Hogan’s Alley.” The Canadian Encyclopedia, 18 Feb. 2014, www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/hogans-alley.
Gibson-Towns, Thelma. “My Mother.” Vancouver 125 Stories, 4 Oct. 2011, vancouverstories125.blogspot.com/p/thank-you.html.
Griffin, Kevin. “This Week in History: 1979: At Vie’s, Everyone Got Equal Treatment and Great Food.” Vancouver Sun, 27 Sept. 2019, vancouversun.com/news/local-news/this-week-in-history-1979-at-vies-everyone-got-equal-treatment-and-great-food.
Habib, Ayesha. “A Harlem Nocturne.” NUVO, 19 Apr. 2019, nuvomagazine.com/daily-edit/a-harlem-nocturne.
“Hendrix House.” Canada’s Historic Places, www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=10967. Accessed 18 Jan. 2021.
Janda, Randip, and Jane Nunnikhoven. “Who Was Leonard Lane?” Good Money by Vancity, 20 Feb. 2017, blog.vancity.com/who-was-leonard-lane.
Lazarus, Eve. “Jimi Hendrix Plays the Pacific Coliseum—September 7, 1968.” Eve Lazarus, 1 Sept. 2018, evelazarus.com/jimi-hendrix-plays-the-pacific-coliseum-september-7-1968.
“Len Gibson.” Dance Collection Danse, www.dcd.ca/pih/gibsonpih.html. Accessed 18 Jan. 2021.
Ludwig, Michaela. “BC Prohibition: The Scandalous Double Life of Walter Findlay •.” British Columbia Magazine, 4 May 2015, www.bcmag.ca/bc-prohibition-the-scandalous-double-life-of-walter-findlay.
MacGillivray, Alex. “It’s Really Sort of a Funny Old Place.” Vancouver Sun [Vancouver, BC], 1 Mar. 1963, p. 5.
Mack, Adrian. “Jimi Hendrix Haunts Vie’s Chicken and Steak House.” The Georgia Straight, 10 Dec. 2012, www.straight.com/article-240227/hendrix-haunts-chicken-house.
Mackie, John. “This Week in History, 1920: The Masses Reject Prohibition.” Vancouver Sun [Vancouver, BC], 20 Oct. 2018, vancouversun.com/news/local-news/this-week-in-history-1920-the-masses-reject-prohibition.
—. “This Week in History, 1920: The Masses Reject Prohibition.” Vancouversun, 20 Oct. 2018, vancouversun.com/news/local-news/this-week-in-history-1920-the-masses-reject-prohibition.
—. “This Week in History: 1966 Cabarets Are a Go-Go as Bottle Clubs.” Vancouver Sun [Vancouver, BC], 16 Mar. 2018, vancouversun.com/news/local-news/this-week-in-history-1966-cabarets-are-a-go-go-as-bottle-clubs.
—. “This Week in History: 1966 Cabarets Are a Go-Go as Bottle Clubs.” Vancouversun, 16 Mar. 2018, vancouversun.com/news/local-news/this-week-in-history-1966-cabarets-are-a-go-go-as-bottle-clubs.
Mahmoud, Jasmine Jamillah. “To Salvage an Archive – Deanna Bowen.” Canadian Art, 7 June 2019, canadianart.ca/interviews/to-salvage-an-archive.
Moyer, Naomi. Black Women Who Dared. Illustrated, Second Story Press, 2018.
O’Grady, Matt. “Black Vancouver and the Stories We’ve Erased.” Echo Storytelling Agency, 18 Sept. 2020, www.echostories.com/black-vancouver-and-the-stories-weve-erased.
Parker, Raymond. “Guitars, Gangsters and g-Strings: Memories of Vancouverâs Main Street.” Raymond Parker Photography, 16 Jan. 2017, raymondparkerphoto.com/guitars-gangsters-and-g-strings-memories-of-vancouvers-main-street.
Ramsey, Bruce. “Negroes Live Next Door.” Vancouver Sun [Vancouver, BC], 19 July 1952, p. 15.
Russwurm, Lani. “A Boozy History of Prohibition in Vancouver.” Forbidden Vancouver, 22 Apr. 2020, forbiddenvancouver.ca/blog/boozy-history-prohibition-vancouver.
—. “Vancouver Was Awesome: Jimi Hendrix.” Vancouver Is Awesome, 23 Nov. 2011, www.vancouverisawesome.com/history/vancouver-was-awesome-jimi-hendrix-1924075.
Scott, Curtis. “The End of Hogan’s Alley – Part 1.” Spacing Vancouver, 12 Aug. 2013, spacing.ca/vancouver/2013/08/12/the-end-of-hogans-alley-part-1.
Smith, Gale. “Hogan’s Alley-Vie’s Chicken and Steak House.” The British Columbia Food History Network, 16 Jan. 2021, www.bcfoodhistory.ca/hogans-alley-vies-chicken-and-steak-house
University of British Columbia. “Why Clarence Clemons Died : Power, Narrative, and the Death of a ‘Negro Longshoreman’ in Vancouver, 1952-53.” UBC Library Open Collections, 2 Nov. 2009, open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0091283.
Unknown. “Marcella ‘Choo Choo’ Williams.” A History of Black Music and Entertainment throughout Vancouver, 18 Jan. 2021, vancouversblackentertainment.blogspot.com/2019/03/marcella-choo-choo-williams.html.
Vancouver Heritage Foundation. “827 E Georgia St, Vancouver BC •.” Vancouver Heritage Foundation, 22 July 2019, www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org/location/827-e-georgia-st-vancouver-bc.
—. “Fountain Chapel.” Vancouver Heritage Foundation, 10 June 2020, www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org/place-that-matters/fountain-chapel.
Vancouver Moving Theatre & Centre for Integration of African Immigrants. “Spirit Rising Festival & East End Blues & All That Jazz Honouring Vancouver’s Historic East End Black Community, February 2011.” UBC Library Open Collections, 1 Feb. 2011, open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubccommunityandpartnerspublicati/52387/items/1.0379911.
