BLACK HISTORY
MONTH

RESOURCES

About Black History Month

\ Origins

Why we observe Black History Month

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 22.15.34.png

Re-Imagining Black History Month: an Equity-Informed Approach:

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 22.16.13.png

Ontario Black History Society

Learning
Materials

Sankofa Black Heritage Collection

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 22.20.30.png

Black history lessons

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 22.21.05.png

Teaching Black History in Ontario

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 22.22.25.png

French lesson plans and learning materials

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 22.24.32.png

Fundi Education

Ministry of Government and Consumer Services.png

Government of Ontario Lessons Plans

Black Canadians in New Brunswick

Posters (2021)

Artboard 1.jpg

365 Black Canadian Curriculum

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 22.39.19.png

Black History in Canada Education Guide

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 22.40.02.png

Black History Educational Package

Canadian Encyclopedia

goverment of canada.jpg

Government of Canada

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 22.44.24.png

French resources

Connaît-on réellement l'histoire des Noirs au Canada?

Being Black in Canada

Screenshot 2022-01-21 at 03.29.06.png

28 Moments of Black Canadian History

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 22.48.59.png

Colouring Books

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 22.18.40.png

Sankofa: Black Canadian Storytelling.

Beyond Black History Month

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 22.48.59.png

Colouring Books

black communities in canada.jpg

Documentaries

Screenshot 2022-01-21 at 10.52.02.png

Documentaries

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 22.56.25.png

Canadian Race Relations Foundation

TPL_Toronto public library.jpg

Canadian Race Relations Foundation

\ Social Studies

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.03.50.png

Natasha Henry, for grades 1-6, 7 and

8, 9-12.

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.05.04.png

Marie-Eveline Belinga, Penser et grandir pour la vie

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.06.22.png

Black Muslims in Canada: A systemic Review of Published and Unpublished Literature

Unique challenges faced by Black Muslim community warrant better understanding, attention

Black Muslims in Canada: Challenging Narratives of Belonging and Rootedness Ontario Black History Society

\ Black Media

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.09.15.png

By Blacks

The top-ranked award-winning online magazine focused exclusively on telling Black Canadian stories. A directory of Black Canadians.

BEING BLACK IN CANADA.jpg

Being Black in Canada

Black Communities
in Canada

Screenshot 2022-01-21 at 11.42.32.png

Diplomatic Racism Canadian Government

canadaian museum.jpg

To "Canada" and Back Again: Immigration from the United States on the Underground Railroad

(1840-1860)

Ontario History, 99(1), 64–76

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.24.44.png

Dawn Settlement

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.26.40.png

“Crossing Boundaries: Centuries of Black migration on the Canadian Prairies”

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.18.11.png

Turner Consulting, Early Black Settlement in Canada, timeline.

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.21.59.png

Under the North Star: Black Communities in Upper Canada

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.23.36.png

Africville

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.25.09.png

Little Burgundy and Montreal's Black English-Speaking Community

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.18.51.png

Dr. Bryan Walls, BPS, Canadian Settlements.

Blacks in 1880s Toronto: The Search for Equality.

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.24.16.png

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.25.41.png

N.S. pays tribute to Black Loyalists who sailed to Sierra Leone in 1792

History

Screenshot 2022-01-21 at 12.31.41.png

Canadian Black history timeline

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.28.04.png

The first settlers on Salt Spring Island were slaves who had bought their freedom (WITH VIDEO)

Screenshot 2022-01-21 at 12.37.56.png

Black Canadian Legacies

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.29.40.png

Unwritten histories

A Guide to Online Resources for Teaching and Learning about Black History in Canada

Unwritten histories

Black History in Canada until 1900

Unwritten histories

Black History in Canada: 1900–1960

Unwritten histories

Black History in Canada: 1960 to Present

Unwritten histories

Black Fur Traders in Canada

Unwritten histories

Black History in Canada - A collection of Black History Resources

Elections

Canadian Black Political Timeline

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.34.24.png

Elections

The First Man to Reach the North Pole was an African American Desk Clerk the World Forgot

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.35.05.png

Elections

Black Trailblazers in Canadian Political History

Elections

From Immigrant to Establishment: A Black Family’s Journey.

\ Black Women

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.36.17.png

Black Cross Nurses in Canada

Black Female Freedom Fighters

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.37.53.png

100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.38.32.png

“Constructing Black Women’s Historical Knowledge”

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.39.03.png

Our Mothers Grand and Great: Black Women of Nova Scotia

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.39.51.png

The Incredible Black Canadian Women You Should Know

Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 23.40.27.png

Speech by Rosemary Brown

Artboard 1.jpg

“Against Amnesia: African Nova Scotia Women’s Generational Leadership in Civil Rights Organizing, 1950–79”

\ Black Women

Is the province's first female African Nova Scotian deputy minister

The founding dean of the Faculty of Law at Ryerson University.

DR leslyn lewis_edited.jpg

Dr Leslyn Lewis

Lawyer and politician. Lewis was elected as the Conservative Party of Canada Member of Parliament.

Dominique Anglade

becomes first black woman to lead a provincial political party in Quebec