York University

The York University Archives maintains unique collections, photos, and papers documenting the university’s past and contributions to Canadian society.

Topics

Children and Youth Culture, Heritage and Arts Education Educational Resources Family and Domestic Life Freedom Seekers and Migration History Historical Achievements, Figures, and Biography Oppression, Activism, and Resistance Politics and Governance Women and Feminism

Collection includes:

  • Black Canadian Heritage
  • Education and Advocacy
  • Black Achievements
  • Black Settlers
  • African Arts

Archive address

York University

4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON
M3J 1P3

The Archive

The Harriet Tubman Institute Virtual Museum 2015 ‟Un/Belonging in Diasporic Cities: A Literary History of Caribbean Women in London and Toronto.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 2019 ‟Agency, Social Status and Performing Marriage in Postcolonial Societies”. Journal of Asian and African Studies 2019 The Black Woman Native Speaking Subject: Reflections of a Black Female Professor in Canada 2018 Freedom Narratives Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections 1970 The Jean Augustine Political Button Collection 2014 Blacks in Canada 1956-2018 Talk: Blacks and Women 1971-1975 Caribbeans / Blacks in Canada 1985-1989 Education and Culture: Blacks and Jews 1973 Odyssey ch. 3: Education of Natives and Blacks in Canada 1977 Rage Against The Darkness: Living Dangerously (Without Blacks) 2004 Highway 10: Africanbeet Festival 1993 A Brief Pictorial History of Blacks in Nineteenth Century Ontario / Ontario Human Rights Commission 1994-2015 Larger Scores: Negro Spirituals 1970 Art as an element of Culture, Especially in Negro-Africa 1957 Water Boy: A Negro Convict Song 1950 Expression: a Quarterly Published by the Negro Citizenship Association Inc 1965-1966 Women of Our Time: Canadian Black Women 1973 Elementary levels: Negro Spirituals 1967 Canadian Black Musicians 1960-1970 Research Notes: Course Paper/Chapter 2 1966 Researching Black Canadian Musics/Black Music Cultures Conference 2003 Musicians' Roundtable 1: Reggae in Canada Keynote Address 2: Brainerd Blyden-Taylor Musicians' Roundtable 2: Dub history in Canada Musicians' Roundtable 3: Gospel history in Canada Musicians' Roundtable 4: Music Africa and African Musics in Toronto Musicians' Roundtable 5: Jazz and Blues History in Canada - Vocalists Musicians' Roundtable 6: Jazz History in Canada - Instrumentalists Keynote Address 3: Winston Smith Formal Welcome: Leslie Sanders and Natasha Smith, Co-convenors African Canadian Online 1966 Culture: Profiles 1966 African Canadian Politicians 1966 Black Pioneers 1966 Caribana 1967 Dance in the African Canadian Community 1966 Film and Theatre 1970s-1980s Literature 1966 Music 1966 Visual Art 1966 Expression. Vol. 2, No. 1 1966 The Canadian Negro 1953-1956 The Negro in Canada 1907-1930 Interesting notes on Great Britain and Canada with respect to the Negro: Jay's Treaty and the Negro 1928 Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a free man; embracing a correspondence of several years, while president of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West 1968 Whence came the Negro Race?: A sermon delivered by the Rev. Joseph Wild, D.D. on Sunday evening, November 6th, 1881, in the Bond Street Congregational Church, Toronto Petition of Mrs. Mary Jane Edwoods and others, trustees and members of the First Colored Calvinistic Baptist Church of Toronto, praying that the Bill to authorize certain alterations in their deed of Trust, may not become law The Negro Revolt 1960 Letters from the United States, Cuba and Canada 1969 An excursion through the United States and Canada during the years 1822-1823 The Slave in Upper Canada 1919 Negro Migration During The War 1920 Petition of William Henderson Edwoods and others, members of the First Coloured Calvinist Baptist Church of Toronto 1855 Negro competition, an Objection to Unrestricted Reciprocity 1892 Seven sermons delivered by Rev. Joseph Wild, D.D., in Bond Street Congregational Church, Toronto, Ontario 1855 Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro his Anti-Slavery Labours in the United States, Canada & England 1883 Transatlantic sketches comprising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies; with notes on Negro slavery and Canadian emigration 1883 The laws of the British Colonies in the West Indies and other parts of America, concerning real and personal property and manumission of slaves; with a view of the constitution of each colony 1970 An Appeal to the Religion, Justice, and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the British Empire, in behalf of the Negro Slaves in the West Indies 1823 Fair accommodation practices in Ontario: a study of the Negro complainants's [sic] and leaders' knowledge of and attitudes toward the Ontario Human Rights Code and Commission 1974 The Computer Centre Party: Canada Meets Black Power 1969 Report to the Freedman's Inquiry Commission, 1864: The Regugees from Slavery in Canada West Some Personality Traits of Blacks and Whites in New Brunswick 1970 Go Tell it on The Mountain 1963 The Underground Railway 1902 Canada's Part in Freeing the Slave 1919 The Rev. Josiah Henson, ‟Uncle Tom", in Scotland report of farewell meeting and presentation in the City Hall, Glasgow 1877 Slave Days in Canada 1919 Slavery in Old Canada, before and after the conquest read before the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec 1906 The Refugee: A North-Side View of Slavery 1969 A North-Side View of Slavery: The Refugee, or, the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada Related by Themselves: With an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada 1968 Black Moses: The Real Uncle Tom 1957 An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom") 1980 A Plea for Emigration, or, Notes of Canada West in its Moral, Social, and Political Aspect; with Suggestions Respecting Mexico, West Indies, and Vancouver's Island, for the Information of Coloured Emigrants 1952 The Life of Wm. H.H. Johnson, from 1839 to 1900, and The New Race Father Henson's Story of His Own Life [microform]: With an introduction 1858 The Young People's Illustrated Edition of "Uncle Tom's" [i.e. J. Henson's] story of his life (from 1789 to 1877) Slavery in Canada 1980 Fugitive Borders: Black Canadian Cross-border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century Constitution and Bye-Laws of the Anti-Slavery Society of Canada 1851 Viola Desmond's Canada: A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land 2016 Deux siècles d'esclavage au Québec 2004 The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal 2007 A History Buried the Duval Cummings Family, Ontario 2007 Ces Canadiens Oubliés 1981 The Relation of Canada to the Anti-Slavery and Abolition Movements in the United States 1919 Black Canadians: A Long Line of Fighters 1975 The Anti-Slavery Society of Canada 1973 L'esclavage au Canada Français: Histoire et Conditions de l'esclavage 1960 The Slave in Canada 1920 Slavery in old Canada, before and After the Conquest Read before the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, the 2nd March, 1906 The Slave in Canada 1899 De l'esclavage en Canada 1859 A narrative of Thomas Smallwood (coloured man) giving an account of his birth, the period he was held in slavery, his release and removal to Canada, etc., together with an account of the Underground Railroad 1851 Voice of the fugitive 1851 Ontario's African-Canadian Heritage: Collected Writings by Fred Landon 2009 The Anti-Slavery Society of Canada 1973 Annual Report Presented to the Anti-Slavery Society of Canada by its Executive Committee 1852 Blacks in Canada, in Search of the Promise: A Bibliographic Guide to the History of Blacks in Canada 1988 The Freedom-Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada 1981 Our Roots 2: Personal and Family Histories from the OAC Stephen Leacock Black History Class 1994 Canada and its People of African Descent 1977 Black Like Who?: Writing, Black, Canada 1997 Blacks in Deep Snow: Black Pioneers in Canada 1979 Canadian National Griot Awards 2003 The Underground Railway 1902 The Blacks in Canada a History 1997 Out of the Past, into the Future: [An Introductory Learning Guide] 1994 The Canadian Negro 1953 Fields of Endless Day 2007 Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism 2000 'Slaves no More' a Study of the Buxton Settlement, Upper Canada 1995 Maple Leaf Rag 2010 In Our Time: [An Introductory Learning Guide] 1994 Towards Freedom: The African-Canadian Experience 1996 The Negro in Canada 1930 A History of Blacks in Canada: A Study Guide for Teachers and Students 1980 Black Canadians History, Experiences, Social Conditions 2002 Being Black: Essays 2000 Canadian Black Studies Bibliography 1971 Ebony Roots, Northern Soil Perspectives on Blackness in Canada 2010 Prospective Sites Relating to Black History in Canada: A Study 1994 Blacks in Canada Collection 1990 Blacks in Early Canada, 1860-1920: A Grade 8 History Unit 2004 Millennium Minds: 100 Black Canadians 2000 Blues and Bliss the Poetry of George Elliott Clarke 2008 Africadian History: An Exhibition Catalogue 2001 A Place Called Heaven: The Meaning of Being Black in Canada 1996 African Canadian Leadership: Continuity, Transition, and Transformation 2019 Some Black Women: Profiles of Black Women in Canada 1993 Trials and Triumphs: The Story of African-Canadians 1993 Canada's Part in Freeing The Slave 1919 The West Indians in Canada 1984 Multiple Lenses: Voices From the Diaspora Located in Canada 2007 Alienation and Resistance: The Political Behavior of Afro-Canadians 1979 BlackLife: Post-BLM and The Struggle for Freedom 2019 Race & Well-Being: The Lives, Hopes, and Activism of African Canadians 2010 African Canadian Leadership: Continuity, Transition, and Transformation 2019 Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History 2022 Blackness and Modernity: The Colour of Humanity and the Quest for Freedom 2007 Racial discrimination in Canada: The Black Experience 1985 The Rev. Josiah Henson, "Uncle Tom", in Scotland Report of Farewell Meeting and Presentation in the City Hall 1877 Blackness and Canada : A Phenomenological Exploration 2002 Who's who in Black Canada 2: Black Success and Black Excellence in Canada a Contemporary Directory 2006 A North-Side View of Slavery the Refugee, or, The Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada 1856 Black Pioneers in Communication Research 2006 Black Pioneers of Science and Invention 1970 Black Pioneers in American History, 19th Century 1969 Black Pioneers: Images of the Black Experience on the North American Frontier 1997 The Queen's Bush Settlement: Black Pioneers 2004 Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia 1978 Three Black Pioneers in American Modern Dance: The Dance Careers of Hemsley Winfield, Edna Guy, and Wilson Williams 1984 Black Pioneers in the 1970s and the Segregation Puzzle 2018 Black Pioneers in Medical Education 1993 Black Pioneers of Academic Chemistry 2009 Eyes on the Prize: Black Pioneers like Robeson and Poitier 2008 Paved the way for Respectability and Kudos Black Pioneers 2020 Black Pioneers: An Untold Story 1999 Black Pioneers: Images of the Black Experience on the North American Frontier 1996 The Keystone Settlers(Black Pioneers who Settled Canada's Prairie Provinces) 1998 History in the Skies; Remembering Black Pioneers 2004 Black Pioneers in the High-Tech World 2000 Black Pioneers in a White Denomination 1982 Recalling Black Pioneers Who Sailed to Africa 1992 Black Pioneers in a White Denomination 1984 West of the Rockies: Today's Black Pioneers 1971 The Eccentric Engineer - Technology: America's Forgotten Black Pioneers and Patent Holders 2017 Black Pioneers of Science and Invention. Louis HaberNegroes in Science: Natural Science Doctorates, James M Jay 1977 An Accidental Archive of the Old Durham Road: Reclaiming a Black Pioneer Settlement 2016 Privilege and Prejudice: The Life of a Black Pioneer by Clifton R. Wharton Jr 2016 The Old Durham Road Black Pioneer Settlement: Contested Place as an Invitation to Curriculum 2016 Black Pioneer 2016 Saskatchewan's Black Pioneer Doctor 1977 Public Television's Black Pioneer: WHMM TV/32 1985 Justin Holland: The Guitar's Black Pioneer 1987 Free Frank: A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier 1986 Frontier Town Founded by Black Pioneer 2004 Boley: An All-Black Pioneer town and the Education of its Children 1989 Jacob Lawrence: 'Greatest Living Black Painter.' Art World and Community Groups Celebrate Work and Vision of Black Pioneer 1992 Delicious Moments: Uncovering the Hidden Lives of Western Canada’s Black Pioneer Women 2005
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