Info Guides: Black History: Manitoba and The Prairies

Black on the Prairies - CBC

CBC's Black on the Prairies - Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba
SUMMARY: A multimedia project launched in April 2021: "Exploring the past, present and future of Black Prairie life through the themes of Migration, Putting in Work, Black and Indigenous Relations, Politics and Resistance, and Black to the Future."

Exploring Black history in the Museum Collections
SOURCE: Manitoba Museum. Author: Dr. Roland Sawatsky
Black railway workers and the Winnipeg General Strike
SOURCE: Manitoba Museum. Author: Dr. Leah Morton
William Beal, renaissance man of the North
SOURCE: Manitoba Museum. Author: Dr. Roland Sawatsky

Memorable Manitobans: Frances Helen Brown Atwell (1923-2015)
SUMMARY: A profile of the first Black pharmacist in Manitoba.
Memorable Manitobans: George Waldron Prout (1878-c1980)
SUMMARY: A profile of the first person of black ancestry to serve as a Member of the Legislative Assembly.
Memorable Manitobans: John Ashley Robinson (c1883-1950)
SUMMARY: A profile of one of the organizers of the Order of Sleeping Car Porters, the first Black railway union in North America, in Winnipeg.

Changing the Prairie Story: Reading Black & Black-Indigenous Writers in the Prairie Archive with Dr. Karina Vernon
SOURCE: University of Winnipeg

The Black Prairie Archives by Karina Vernon (Editor)
Publication Date: 2020
The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology recovers a new regional archive of "black prairie" literature, and includes writing that ranges from work by nineteenth-century black fur traders and pioneers, all of it published here for the first time, to contemporary writing of the twenty-first century. This anthology establishes a new black prairie literary tradition and transforms inherited understandings of what prairie literature looks and sounds like.

Search Info guides

catalogue search

frequently-asked questions, library policies and more