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Since 1970, there have been numerous contributions to the discipline of Black Canadian history. This article assesses the work of a number of historians and other social scientists in the literature. Each of the authors clearly acknowledges that Black Canadians have experienced racism and discrimination since their arrival in Canada and discusses how members of the community responded to these practices. Collectively, the work of these authors clearly fills a void in the writing of Canadian history in which people of African descent are typically excluded.

The African Canadian Legal Odyssey explores the history of African Canadians and the law from the era of slavery until the early twenty-first century. ;This collection demonstrates that the social history of Blacks in Canada has always been inextricably bound to questi52.99ons of law, and that the role of the law in shaping Black life was often ambiguous and shifted over time.Comprised of eleven engaging chapters, organized both thematically and chronologically, it includes a substantive introduction that provides a synthesis and overview of this complex history. This outstanding collection will appeal to both advanced specialists and undergraduate students and makes an important contribution to an emerging field of scholarly inquiry

The definitive history of the African-Canadian experience, this third edition includes a foreword by George Elliott Clarke, E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. Clarke's contribution adds a necessary critical lens through which twenty-first-century readers should view Winks's research.

DISCERNING OVERSEAS VISITORS TO CANADA HAVE LONG INQUIRED INTO THE RATIONALE OF CANADA AS AN ENTITY INDEPENDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. SO HAVE MANY CANADIANS. CONRAD BLACK REVIEWS HISTORICAL DIFFERENCES AND THE RADICALIZATION OF QUEBEC. "MEECH LAKE AND AFTER" IS THEN EXAMINED AND THE "SOUTHERN OPINION" EVALUATED. HE CONCLUDES THAT WHETHER DELIBERATELY OR BY MISADVENTURE, JOINING THE UNITED STATES OR NOT IS THE CHOICE CANADA WILL MAKE IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS.

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editors' Introduction -- Chapter 1: Calling to Her Brethren -- Chapter 2: "Servant, Seraglio, Savage or 'Sarah' -- Chapter 3: Women and Children First -- Chapter 4: The Women at the Well -- Chapter 5: Intellectual History and the Visual Archive -- Chapter 6: "The Splendid Work Our Women Have Done -- Chapter 7: Labouring for Change -- Chapter 8: Unsuitable to Become Canadian -- Chapter 9: Writing (Black) Citizenship -- Appendix -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributor Biographies -- Index -- Back Cover.

The principal differentia of the Canadian economy are familiar. Because of the nature of her resources and her situation, Canada depends chiefly upon the production in quantity of a few staple commodities for export to those regions having less specialized resources and more diversified economies. Canada is thus subjected, willy-nilly, to a violent alternation of boom and depression by the fluctuation of demand in her foreign markets. Geography, moreover, has afflicted Canada with a transportation problem, which has two phases: in time of boom, the problem is how to obtain quickly more and cheaper transportation; in time of depression, how to pay out of her shrunken national income the heavy fixed costs incurred by the construction of transportation facilities.

The paucity of historical materials on Black Canadian women does not necessarily mean the sources are unavailable. To recuperate and reconstruct Black Canadian women's subjugated knowledge requires drawing from fragments of materials available within and outside the archives. Using oral history as the primary methodology, as well as archival and nursing sources, coupled with secondary research, this essay exploits these sources to piece together the story of a group of women about whom very little is known. This research not only contributes to the history of nursing in Canada but also challenges the national narrative that touts the benign treatment of Black people in Canada.