Ch. 5 – The Presence of the Past II: Other Black Canadas

A List of Supplemental Links to Chapter 5

5.1. THE BLACKENING OF QUEBEC: JAZZ, DIASPORA, AND THE HISTORY AND WRITING OF BLACK ANGLOPHONE MONTREAL 292

• Didier Leclair (didierleclair.tumblr.com)
• “Prix littéraire Trillium – Mardi 20 mars 2012 – Didier Leclair,” video (youtube.com)
• Melchior Mbonimpa (Université de Hearst)
• “La tribu de Sangwa – Melchior Mbonimpa,” video, Prise de Parole (youtube.com)
• Djanet Sears (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Oliver Jones (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Ranee Lee (raneelee.com)
• “Jazz fest 2009: Oliver Jones and Ranee Lee launch L’Astral,” 30 June 2009 (Montreal Gazette)
• “Oliver Jones à l’Astral (2009) – Médiathèque Jazz,” “Lady Be Good” video excerpt (youtube.com)
• “Letter to my Teacher: Oliver Jones” (CBC Music)
• “How Oscar Peterson’s neighbourly advice sent Canadian pianist Oliver Jones on his way,” Deirdre Kelly, 8 April 2013 (The Globe and Mail)
• Burgundy, dir. Adam Bemma (youtube.com)
• Burgundy Voices: A Participatory Documentary Project, dir. Imaan Browne, Meg Cramer, Charly Feldman (youtube.com)
• “Saying Goodbye to the Negro Community Centre,” Anne Sutherland, 20 November 2014 (Montreal Gazette)
• Negro Community Center: NCC / Charles H. Este Cultural Center
• “Carol Talbot on writing Growing Up Black In Canada,” video (vimeo.com)
• Hugh MacLennan (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Gabrielle Roy (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Morley Callaghan (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Shadrach Minkins (blackpast.org)
• Union United Church, Montreal, Quebec: Our History (unionunitedchurchmtl.ca)
• “The Universal Negro Improvement Association of Montreal, 1917-1979,” Leo W. Bertley (Concordia University)
• Steep Wade (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Oscar Peterson (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Oliver Jones (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Joe Sealy (joesealy.com)
• “Africville Revisited: Joe Sealy and Jackie Richardson,” Ori Dagan, 30 January 2013 (The Whole Note)
• Charlie Biddle (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Archival Photos: Café St-Michel, Rockhead’s Paradise (100objects.qahn.org)
• “From the Archives of 1987: Behind Piano Greats, There’s Daisy Sweeney,” 21 March 1987 (Montreal Gazette)
• “Montreal Black Historian: Dorothy Williams,” Carol Roach, 9 March 2012 (examiner.com)
• Music in the Key of Oscar, NFB/CBC documentary, 1992 (youtube.com)
• “The Oliver Jones Story,” audio documentary and transcript, Oliver Jones and Ross Porter (canadianjazzarchive.net)
• Show Girls: Celebrating Montreal’s Legendary Black Jazz Scene, NFB documentary, 1998 (youtube.com)
• “Montreal Jazz Guitarist Nelson Symonds Dies at 75,” 16 October 2008 (CBC)
• “Burgundy Jazz: Life and Music in Little Burgundy” (Radio-Canada)
• “Mairuth Sarsfield: From Little Burgundy to Expo 67,” Elizabeth Renzetti, 12 June 2013 (The Globe and Mail)
• “No Crystal Stair – Mairuth Sarsfield” (CBC Books)
• “The Coloured Women’s Club of Montreal” (learnquebec.ca)
• History: The Coloured Women’s Club (colouredwomensclub.org)
• Timeline: The Coloured Women’s Club (tripod.com)
• Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (blackpast.org)
• African Canadian Community: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (Windsor Mosaic)
• “A Porter’s Pride,” Gerald Archambeau, 4 December 2007 (Hamilton Spectator)
• “Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association,” David Van Leeuwen (National Humanities Center)
• “A. Philip Randolph – The George Meany Memorial Archives” (The George Meany Memorial Archives)
• “Rockhead’s Paradise – Burgundy Jazz – Life and Music in Little Burgundy,” video (CBC)
• Rockhead’s Paradise, photos and clippings (jazzcitymtl.com)
• Lou Hooper (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Maynard Ferguson (maynardferguson.com)
• Paul de Marky (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Johnny Holmes (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• “Montreal, The Ever Loyal UNIA Division,” Leo W. Bentley (learnquebec.ca)
• “Oscar Peterson – Hymn to Freedom,” video, Live in Denmark, 1964 (youtube.com)
• Lost Boundaries, Ernest Tucker (Author House)
• “Behind the Face of Winter by H. Nigel Thomas,” review, Hugh Hodges, December 2001 (Quill and Quire)
• Tessa McWatt (Penguin Random House Canada)
• Cecil Foster (cecilfoster.ca)
• George Elliott Clarke (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Stanley Péan (stanleypean.com)

 

5.2. AFRICVILLE AND THE AFRICADIAN RENAISSANCE 307

• Africville (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• “Africville: A Community Displaced,” photographs/history/documents (Library and Archives Canada)
• Remember Africville, video, Shelagh Mackenzie, 1991, NFB Canada (NFB)
• “Africville: Expropriating Black Nova Scotians – Racism in Halifax,” video, 1962, CBC (youtube)
• “Africville: Expropriating Black Nova Scotians – Africville Is An Eyesore,” video, 1962 (CBC)
• “Africville: Expropriating Black Nova Scotians – Africville Is Destroyed,” video, 1967 (CBC)
• “Africville: Canada’s Secret Racist History,” Noah Tavlin, 4 February 2013 (vice.com)
• Africville Museum (africvillemuseum.org)
• “Riverlisp (1974) by Frederick Ward” (Internet Book List)
• “Africville, An Imagined Community,” Maureen Moynagh, Canadian Literature 157, Summer 1998 (canlit.ca)
• Selwyn Jacob (blackincanada.com)
• The Road Taken, Selwyn Jacob, 1996 (NFB Canada)
• “Frederick Ward’s Blistering Blues – Excerpt,” 7 August 2009 (Arc Poetry Magazine)
• Canadian Women Poets: Maxine Tynes (Brock University)
• “Maxine Tynes – Biography” (Waterfront Views, Acadia University)
• “Nova Scotian Poet Maxine Tynes Celebrated Her Life as a Black Woman,” Allison Lawlor, 9 October 2011 (The Globe and Mail)
• “George Elliott Clarke – Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues” (Dalhousie University)
• Black Mother Black Daughter, video, Sylvia Hamilton and Claire Prieto, 1989 (NFB Canada)
• Speak It! From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia, video, Sylvia Hamilton, 1992 (NFB Canada)
• “Stories from The Little Black School House,” Sylvia D. Hamilton (speakingmytruth.ca)
• “Sylvia Hamilton Talks about The Little Black School House: The Backstory of the Film,” video (youtube.com)
• Four the Moment (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Faith Nolan (faithnolan.org)
• “Joe Sealy – Africville,” video excerpt with Jackie Richardson (youtube.com)
• The Spirit of Africville, ed. The Africville Genealogy Society, 1992 (University of Calgary)
• Text: “Gone but Never Forgotten: Bob Brooks’ Photographic Portrait of Africville in the 1960s” (Nova Scotia Archives)
• Photo gallery: “Gone but Never Forgotten: Bob Brooks’ Photograph Portrait of Africville in the 1960s” (Nova Scotia Archives)
• “Remembering Africville: Source Guide” (halifax.ca)
• (Introductory) Editorial, George Elliott Clarke, Dalhousie Review, “Special Africadian Issue,” 1997
• “Mapping Africadia’s Imaginary Geography: An Interview with George Elliott Clarke,” Maureen Moynagh, Ariel 27.4, 1996.
• The Great Black North: David Woods (blackcanadianpoetry.com)
• Public poetry performances by David Woods (youtube.com)
• George Elroy Boyd (Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia)
• Walter Borden (Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia)
• Tightrope Time (1987), Walter Borden, photos and clippings (blacktheatreworkshop.ca)
• “Walter Borden among Five Named to Order of Nova Scotia,” 3 December 2014 (The Chronicle Herald)
• “Africville: Apology” (halifax.ca)
• “News Release: An Africville Apology and an Agreement to Commemorate the Historic Community,” 24 February 2010 (halifax.ca)
• “Africville Can’t Escape Racial Divide: The Choice of a New Halifax Museum’s Executive Director Is Stoking Old Tensions,” Richard Warnica, 26 September 2011 (Maclean’s)

 

5.3. DIASPORIC CROSSROADS AND THE BLACK PRAIRIES: FOGGO, HARRIS, EDUGYAN 316

• “The Black Prairies: History, Subjectivity, Writing,” Karina Vernon, University of Victoria, 2008
• “Preface to The Great Black North by Karina Vernon” (blackcanadianpoetry.com)
• Suzette Mayr

Listening to Black Prairies History: Cheryl Foggo’s Pourin’ Down Rain 317

• “Writing a Home for Prairie Blackness: Addena Sumter Freitag’s Stay Black and Die and Cheryl Foggo’s Pourin’ Down Rain,” Karina Vernon, Canadian Literature 182, Autumn 2004 (canlit.ca)
• Cheryl Foggo (blackincanada.com)
• Cheryl Foggo, “Pourin Down Rain,” short video clip (vimeo.com)

The Caribbean Prairies: Claire Harris’ Drawing Down a Daughter 320

• Claire Harris (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Canadian Women Poets: Claire Harris (Brock University)
• “‘Writing Home': Claire Harris’s Drawing Down a Daughter,” Teresa Zackodnik, Ariel 30.3, 1999, PDF
• “Legend of the La Diablesse,” Angelo Bissessarsingh, 27 October 2013 (Trinidad and Tobago Guardian)
• “Claire Harris: Voices from the Gaps,” Jessica Barwick and Meredith Kessler, 16 December 2004 (University of Minnesota)
• “Inhabitable Spaces in Claire Harris’s She,” Veronica Austen, SCL 34.2, 2009 (UNB)

African Antecedents in Aster/ Amber Valley: Esi Edugyan’s The Second Life of Samuel Tyne 329

• Esi Edugyan (Canadian Women Writers)
• “Black Canadian Literature as Diaspora Transgression: The Second Life of Samuel Tyne,” Andrea Davis, Topia 17, Spring 2007 (York University)
• Black Pioneers Descendant’s Society (Western Canada) (bpds.org)
• “Black History Canada – Alberta” (blackhistorycanada.ca)
• “Where Do We Belong?: Dreaming of Elsewhere: Observations on Home by Esi Edugyan” Madeleine Thien, July 2014 (Literary Review of Canada)
• “Amber Valley: A Black Community” (Collections Canada)
• “Black History Canada – Amber Valley, Alberta” (blackhistorycanada.ca)
• “Alberta’s Black Pioneer Heritage – Amber Valley” (Alberta’s Black Pioneer Heritage)

 

5.4. BLACK BRITISH COLUMBIA: WAYDE COMPTON AND ROOTED TRANSCULTURAL IMPROVISATION 327

• Wayde Compton
• “Palimpsest Crossroads,” review of Wayde Compton’s Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature, Jenny Pai, Canadian Literature 182, Autumn 2004, p. 105-106 (canlit.ca)
• Commodore Books, “Western Canada’s Black Literary Press” (commodorebooks.com)
• “Tale of a ‘Bad White Black Man,'” review of Fred Booker’s Adventures in Debt Collection, Charles Demers, 3 November 2006 (The Tyee)
• Addena Sumter-Freitag
• Hogan’s Alley Memorial Project, blog
• Hogan’s Alley (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• “Black History Month stamp celebrates Vancouver’s Hogan’s Alley,” 30 January 2014 (CBC)
• The Hogan’s Alley Memorial Project (waydecompton.com)
• After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing and Region by Wayde Compton, review, Paula Koneazny, 2011 (Rain Taxi)
• British Columbia Black History Awareness Society
• “Black History Canada – British Columbia” (blackhistorycanada.ca)
• Sir James Douglas (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Mifflin Wistar Gibbs (blackpast.org)
• Shadow and Light: An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century, Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, 1902 (gutenberg.org)
• “Hogan’s Alley Before the Demolition” (City of Vancouver Archives)
• “The Blood of Entertainers: The Life and Times of Jimi Hendrix’s Paternal Grandparents,” Janie L. Hendrix (blackpast.org)

Social Aesthetics and Transcultural Improvisation: Turntablism in 49th Parallel Psalm and Performance Bond 339

• “Postproduction” (Remix the Book)
• Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World, Nicolas Bourriaud, 2002 (mikehoolboom.com)
• Jesse Stewart (jessestewart.ca)
• DJ Kool Herc (djkoolherc.com)
• “Sample Poetics: The Reinventing Wheel, On Blending the Poetry of Cultures Through Hip Hop Turntablism” Wayde Compton, HorizonZero 8, May 2003 (HorizonZero)
• “Papa Legba” (as appears in The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier) (Michigan State University)
• “Halfrican Look at Xanada,” Review of Wayde Compton’s 49th Parallel Psalm, Margaret Gunning, December 1999 (January Magazine)
• “TISH” (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• “Kamau Brathwaite” (poets.org)
• “‘Schizophonophilia': An Audio-Interplay Between Wayde Compton and Paul Watkins,” Interview Audio and Transcript (improvcommunity.ca)
• “Black Writers in Search of Place,” Wayde Compton, Esi Edugyan, and Karina Vernon, 28 February 2005 (The Tyee)