resources

— Black community

Haïti (Québec) (1985)
Feature-length documentary on the Haitian community in Montreal.
The Road Taken (1996)
This documentary takes a ride through history to present the experiences of Black sleeping-car porters who worked on Canada's railways from the early 1900s through the 1960s.
Show Girls (1998)
Show Girls celebrates Montreal's swinging Black jazz scene from the 1920s to the 1960s, when the city was wide open.
Journey to Justice (2000)
This documentary pays tribute to a group of Canadians who took racism to court.
Zero Tolerance (2004)
Zero Tolerance reveals how deep seated prejudice can be. On one side are the city's young people, and on the other, its police force.
Ninth Floor (2015)
Ninth Floor is a documentary about the protests and riot that took place at Sir George Williams University in Montreal, Quebec, in 1969.

Done with Slavery: The Black Fact in Montreal, 1760-1840 by Frank Macky (2010), McGill-Queen's University Press
Black Then: Blacks and Montreal, 1780-1880's by Frank Mackey (2004), McGill-Queen's University Press
Deux siècles d'esclavage au Québec by Marcel Trudel (2004), Éditions Hurtubise
Black in Montreal 1628-1986: An Urban Demography by Dorothy W. Williams (1989), D.W. Williams
The Road To Now: A History of Blacks in Montreal by Dorothy W. Williams (1997), Vehicule Press
The hanging of Angélique: The untold story of Canadian slavery and the burning of Old Montreal by Afua Cooper (2007), University of Georgia Press
Black like who?: Writing Black Canada by Rinaldo Walcott (2003), Insomniac Press
Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal by David Austin (2013), Between the Lines
A place in the sun: Haiti, Haitians, and the remaking of Quebec by Sean Mills (2016), McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP
The empire within: Postcolonial thought and political activism in sixties Montreal by Sean Mills (2010), McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP
Slavery, geography and empire in nineteenth-century marine landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica by Charmaine Nelson (2017), Routledge

Bertley, Leo W. The Universal Negro Improvement Association of Montreal, 1917–1974. Diss. Ph. D. dissertation, Concordia University, California, 1980.
Cheryl Thompson, Black Canada and Why the Archival Logic Memory needs Reform, Les ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum. Vol. 14. No. 2. Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal, 2019.
David Este, Christa Sato et Darcy McKenna, The Coloured Women’s Club Of Montreal, 1902-1940: African-Canadian Women Confronting Anti-Black Racism, Canadian Social Work Review Volume 34, numéro 1, 2017, p. 5-163.
Extian-Babiuk, Tamara. " To be Sold, a Negro Wench": Slave Ads of the Montreal Gazette, 1785-1805. Diss. McGill University, 2006.
Mills, Alexandra, Désirée Rochat, and Steven High. "Telling Stories from Montreal's Negro Community Centre Fonds: The Archives as Community-Engaged Classroom." Archivaria 89.1 (2020): 34-68.
Sandra Evoughlian - Envisioning New Futures: Portrait Photographs of Black Victorians in Montreal, 1861–1901, Diss. McGill University Libraries, 2018.
Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu, “North of the Colour Line; Sleeping Car Porters and the Battle Against Jim Crow on Canadian Rails, 1880–-1920,” Labour/Le Travail vol. , 47 (Spring 2001)
The Evolution of the Black Community in Montreal: Change and Challenge
Webster in collaboration with CCUNESCO, Livret - L’esclavage au Canada