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Black History Month - February: Prominent Black Canadians

Black history teaching - classroom - education resources

Prominent Canadians

Black Canadian - People Cards
Printable and Sourced - Highlighting many historic and current Prominent Black Canadians. Created by your Library
Lulu Anderson
May 1922
Charles Daniels
Calgary 1914

Prominent Black Canadians ENGLISH
People and reading activities - From Twinkle
Prominent Black Canadians FRENCH

Noteworthy Canadians

Government of Canada list of noteworthy Black Canadians
ESRI - Black History 23 Historical Canadians
interactive ARC GIS map features
Periodic Table of Canadian Black History
Incredible interactive resource to learn about Black Canadians whose Voices we should know. Source - Parents for Diversity

Image - Canadian organizations of note

Authors/ Poets

Esi Edugyan
Ghanaian Canadian Novelist

Out of the Sun by Esi Edugyan
Call Number: NF 704.03 EDU
ISBN: 9781487010508
Publication Date: 2021-09-28

Lawrence Hill
Canadian Author

the book of Negros by Lawrence Hill
Call Number: FIC HIL
ISBN: 9781443408981
Historical Fiction

Viola Desmond

Viola Desmond's Canada by Graham Reynolds; George Elliott Clarke (Foreword by); Wanda Robson (As told to)
ISBN: 9781552668375
Publication Date: 2016-01-31
Also - two ebooks about Viola Desmond available on SORA