Category: Canada

  • James Douglas: Father of British Columbia Dundurn Press October 2009 240 pages 5.5 in x 8.5 in Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55488-409-4 eBook ISBN: 978-1-77070-564-7 Julia H. Ferguson James Douglas’s story is one of high adventure in pre-Confederation Canada. It weaves through the heart of Canadian and Pacific Northwest history when British Columbia was a wild land,…

  • Woman finds out famous relative was black The Toronto Star 2011-02-23 Megan Ogilvie, Health Reporter Growing up in Georgetown, Catherine Slaney knew her great-grandfather had an important and interesting past. She knew he was a respected doctor and a surgeon in the American Civil War. She knew he was a friend of Abraham Lincoln and…

  • Family Secrets: Crossing the Colour Line Dundurn Publishing February 2003 264 pages 6 x 9 in Paperback ISBN: 978-1-89621-982-0 eBook (PDF) ISBN: 978-1-55488-161-1 eBook (EPUB) ISBN: 978-1-45971-478-6 Catherine Slaney Foreword by: Daniel G. Hill, III (1923-2003) Catherine Slaney grew into womanhood unaware of her celebrated Black ancestors. An unanticipated meeting was to change her life.…

  • Canada’s Métis win 142-year-old land ruling BBC News 2013-03-08 Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled the government failed to hand out land grants properly to the Métis indigenous group 142 years ago. In a 6-2 ruling, the top court said the failure was “not a matter of occasional negligence, but of repeated mistakes and inaction”. The…

  • The experience of race in the lives of Jewish birth mothers of children from black/white interracial and inter-religious relationships: a Canadian perspective Ethnic and Racial Studies Published online: 2013-01-14 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.752099 Channa C. Verbian, BSW, M.Ed., RSW, OASW, OCSWSSW Toronto, Canada In this paper, I discuss my life history study on experiences of race in…

  • Canada Is Still Racist: And No Think Piece Can Change That Vice Canada: The Definitive Guide to Enlightening Information 2013-03-05 Anupa Mistry When I was younger and more naïve and shielded by my parents, Canadian multiculturalism felt real and true. I grew up in Brampton, Ont., a restlessly expanding suburb of Toronto that teems with…

  • Interview with PhD Student Karla Lucht: Children’s Literature about Mixed-Race Asian Americans/Canadians The Center for Children’s Books Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign February 2013 Tad Andracki, CCB Outreach Coordinator “Everyone deserves to see themselves represented in a book. And a good book at that.” GSLIS doctoral student Karla…

  • Beyond Black and White: When Going Beyond May Take Us Out of Bounds Journal of Black Studies Volume 44, Number 2 (March 2013) pages 158-181 DOI: 10.1177/0021934712471533 Katerina Deliovsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario Tamari Kitossa, Assistant Professor of Sociology Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario This article examines a selection of…

  • An evening wtih Lawrence Hill Central YMCA 20 Grosvenor Street Toronto, Ontario, Canada Thursday, 2013-02-21, 18:30-21:00 EST (Local Time) RSVP Deadline: 2013-02-19 Join us for an evening celebrating Black History Month with renowned Canadian author, Lawrence Hill. Lawrence Hill has written a number of award winning books including The Book of Negroes…. For more information,…

  • “Faces In Between”: A 3MW Collective Exhibition [Review] Jenney Donkey 2013-02-12 Jennifer McKinley At an event, a party, a gathering or any place where I meet new people, I am invariably asked the Question: Where are you from?   “Toronto,” I answer. This is not the response they are looking for and I know it.…