• NFB's Black communities in Canada: A rich history (ages 15-17)
• Criterion's Black History Month 
• Curio's Black history in Canada
• CBC Gem's For the culture with Amanda Parris
• NFB's Focus on Black filmmakers
• NFB's Celebrating BHM with a look back at three pioneering filmmakers

Selected Reference List

Articles

Arnold, A. (2001). Courting Mifflin Gibbs. The Beaver, 81(2), 31-33. https://www.canadashistoryarchive.ca/canadas-history/the-beaver-apr-may-2001/flipbook/IFC/

Bishop, E., Collins, C.R., & Marshall, C. (2020). Black pioneers who made Salt Spring Island their home. British Columbia History, 53(2). 18-22. http://tinyurl.com/3btbuaxw

Cramp, B. (2008). Neighbourhood lost: Scratch the surface of a concrete overpass in Vancouver and you'll find memories of what once a lively Black community. The Beaver, 88 (2), 29-33. https://www.canadashistoryarchive.ca/canadas-history/the-beaver-apr-may-2008/flipbook/1/

De Sousa, I., Wytenbroek, L., Boschma, G., & Thorne, S. (2023). Reflections on Black Nurses’ Invisibility: Exploring the Contribution of Black Nurses to British Columbia (Canada), 1845-1910. Advances in Nursing Science. Advance online publication. https://go.exlibris.link/VnPQ6QFG

Jensen, P. (1999). Odyssey: B.C.'s Black pioneers. The Beaver, 29(1), 28-32. https://www.canadashistoryarchive.ca/canadas-history/the-beaver-feb-mar-1999/flipbook/C/

Landau-Donnelly, F. (2023). Ghostly murals: Tracing the politics of public art in Vancouver’s Hogan’s Alley. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 41(6), 1147–1165. https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544231172122

Lane, R. J. (2011). The first Black British Columbia novel: Truman Green's "A credit to your race". Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, 17(2), 229-244. https://go.exlibris.link/sxZybcL4

Nesteroff, G. (2019). Wesley Ziegler's possum supper. British Columbia History, 52(3), 44. http://tinyurl.com/bdj6a6cs

Petrina, S., & Ross, E. W. (2021). Higher racism: The case of the University of British Columbia: On the wrong side of history but right side of optics. Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, 32, 12-25. https://ices.library.ubc.ca/index.php/workplace/article/view/186661

Ralston, H.K. (1976/1977, Winter). John Sullivan Deas: A Black entrepreneur in British Columbia salmon canning. BC Studies, (32), 64-78. https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i32.905

Souiedan, R. (2012). The curious case of Charles Mitchell. British Columbia History, 45(4), 15-18. https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0380646

Books

Claxton, N. X., Fong, D., Morrison, F., O’Bonsawin, C., Omatsu, M., Price, J., & Sandhra, S. K. (2021). Challenging racist “British Columbia”: 150 years and counting. University of Victoria and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (BC Office). http://hdl.handle.net/1828/12776

Compton, W. (2007). Hogan's Alley: Mapping Vancouver's lost Black neighbourhood. In D. Davine (Ed.), Multiple lenses: Voices from the diaspora located in Canada (pp. 289-292). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. https://go.exlibris.link/6LscQWTn

Crawford, K. (with Rudder, A.). (2020). Go do some great thing: The Black pioneers of British Columbia (3rd ed.). Harbour Publishing. https://go.exlibris.link/yXXkMy5z (Original work published 1978)

Creese, G. (2011). The new African diaspora in Vancouver: Migration, exclusion and belonging. University of Toronto Press. https://go.exlibris.link/KgVjwn20

Creese, G. (2020). “Where are you from?”: Growing up African-Canadian in Vancouver. University of Toronto Press. https://go.exlibris.link/YVwmwxSV

Gibbs, M.W. (1995). Shadow and light: An autobiography with reminiscences of the last and present century. University of Nebraska Press. https://go.exlibris.link/gJY0ySy6 (Original work published 1902)

Marlatt, D., & Itter, C. (Eds.). (1979). Opening doors: Vancouver's East End. Province of British Columbia. https://bnm.bc.catalogue.libraries.coop/eg/opac/record/122242406

White, E. C. (2009). Every goodbye ain’t gone: A photo narrative of Black heritage on Salt Spring Island (J. Bealy, photographer). Dancing Crow Press. https://bnm.bc.catalogue.libraries.coop/eg/opac/record/30926624

Theses and Dissertations

Concord, A. L. (2016). Music and sonic space in Victoria, B.C., 1871-1886: The creation of British identity in a Canadian frontier town [Doctoral dissertation, University of Victoria]. UVicSpace. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/7679

Ismail, A. M. (2023). Navigating identity and belonging: The experiences of Black African refugee youth in higher education institutions in Canada [Master’s thesis, Carleton University]. Carleton University Institutional Repository. https://doi.org/10.22215/etd/2023-15603

Lewis, N. S. (2022). An insufficient record//Exploring the photo-ethics of preserving of Black Vancouver [Master’s thesis, Ontario College of Art & Design University]. OCAD University Open Research Repository. http://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/3763

Mohamed, M. (2023). Reconstructing Vancouver’s Black community from the history of invisibility: Analysis of the role of Black entrepreneurship in British Columbia, Canada [Master’s thesis, University of British Columbia]. Open Collections. https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0431415

Sankofa, j. (2022). “All kinds of money”: Black women on the moving and the policing of urban alley workers, 1900-1935 [Doctoral dissertation, Yale University]. EliScholar. https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/gsas_dissertations/654

Web Sources

BC Black History Awareness Society. (n.d.). British Columbia's Black pioneers: Their industry and character influenced the vision of Canada. Digital Museums Canada. https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/bc-black-pioneers_les-pionniers-noirs-de-la-cb/

BC Black history Awareness Society. (n.d.). Places of interest guide. https://bcblackhistory.ca/learning-centre/places-of-interest-guide/

CBC Communications. (2023, January 21). CBC showcases Black voices, stories and experiences in honour of Black History Month. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/community/cbc-black-history-month-2023-1.6732472

CBC News. (2020, November 29). "All the dreadlocked rastas were White": B.C. poet sings about being Black in Nanaimo. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/being-black-in-nanaimo-1.5820521

Friedman, M. (Director). (n.d.). Secret Vancouver: A Return to Hogan’s Alley [Film]. TELUS Originals. https://watch.telusoriginals.com/view/65a6e704882aae5df80b7954

Fundira, M. (Host). (2021, July 27). Hogan's Alley [Audio podcast episode]. In A place to belong. Historica Canada. https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/podcasts/a-place-to-belong/a-place-to-belong-hogans-alley-episode-4

Hogan's Alley Society. https://www.hogansalleysociety.org/

Nanaimo African Heritage Society. https://nanaimoafricanheritagesociety.com/

UBC Applied Science. (n.d.). Black Canadian history and applied science: Virtual museum. https://apsc.ubc.ca/black-history-month-virtual-museum

Vancouver Black Library. https://www.vancouverblacklibrary.org/

Vancouver Heritage Foundation. (n.d.) Hogan's Alley. Places that matter: Community history resource. https://placesthatmatter.ca/location/hogans-alley/#historical

Vancouver is Awesome. (2020, October 7). Some of Salt Spring Island’s first settlers were former slaves [Video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMoiEWQ929U&list=PLjiAtBk7yDGgsKkxgzDXeQtgwINFMvzOT&index=7