What's up y'all!

Today I have a long one for you. We jump some timelines and discuss Black activism in the early 1900s.

I hope you enjoy!

Let me know what you all would like to hear about next.

Sources (I have way more sources these are just the top few)

• African Canadian Legal Clinic. 2012. (Lawson, Smith, Chen, Parson, & Scott, 2002; Smith & Lawson, 2002).

• Bertley, J. 1982. The role of the black community in educating blacks in montreal, from 1910 to 1940, with special reference to reverend dr. charles humphrey este (Order No. MK58154). ProQuest 303248151

• "Black Train Porters." Coquitlam Heritage Society, https://www.coquitlamheritage.ca/our-blog/black-train-porters.

• "Black Women Changemakers of the 19th and 20th Centuries." Canadian Museum of History. https://www.historymuseum.ca/teachers-zone/black-women-changemakers-of-the-19th-and-20th-centuries/creating-a-positive-black-identity/adeline-chancy

• Boyd, Nancy. “Madness, Women, and the State: Reflections on a Canadian Feminist Perspective.” Canadian Social Work Review, vol. 34, no. 1 (2017).

• Supreme Court of Canada, “Christie v. The York Corporation, [1940] S.C.R. 139,” Exhibits, https://exhibits.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/2715.

• Este, David, Christa Sato, and Darcy McKenna. "The Coloured Women’s Club of Montreal, 1902-1940 African-Canadian Women Confronting Anti-Black Racism." Canadian Social Work Review 34, no. 1 (2017). https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/cswr/2017-v34-n1-cswr03182/1040996ar/

Music Credits

In My Mind by Deoxys Beats | https://soundcloud.com/deoxysbeats1 Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) ⁠https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Ascension by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) ⁠https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Undertow by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley

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Decisive Hours by FSCM Productions | https://fscmproductions.bandcamp.com

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What's up yall ! In this episode we will be covering the West Indian Domestic Scheme. Stay tuned for more!

Music credits

I Knew a Guy by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100199

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Tension by Alex-Productions | https://onsound.eu/ Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

Downtown Walk by | e s c p | https://www.escp.space

https://escp-music.bandcamp.com

Sources

"Caribbean Immigration to Toronto." Heritage Toronto. Accessed March 28, 2025. https://www.heritagetoronto.org/explore/little-jamaica-toronto-history/jamaican-history-domestics-scheme/.

"West Indian Domestic Scheme (1955–1967)." Parks Canada. Last modified July 15, 2020. https://www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2020/07/west-indian-domestic-scheme-19551967.html.

Henry, Frances. "West Indian Domestic Scheme." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Last Modified December 17, 2020. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/west-indian-domestic-scheme.

Calliste, Agnes. "Black History in Canada (1960 to Present)." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Last Modified February 07, 2024. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/black-history-in-canada-1960-to-present.

Henry, Frances. "West Indian Domestic Scheme." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Last Modified December 17, 2020. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/west-indian-domestic-scheme.

Knowles, Valerie. "Immigration Policy." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Last Modified December 14, 2023. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/immigration-policy.

"History." Canadian Council for Refugees. Accessed March 28, 2025. https://ccrweb.ca/en/issues/history.

"The Government of Canada Commemorates the West Indian Domestic Scheme (1955-1967) as an Immigration Program Through Which Around 3,000 Women From Caribbean Countries Were Recruited to Work as Domestic Servants in Canada." Parks Canada. Last modified February 13, 2025. https://www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2025/02/the-government-of-canada-commemorates-the-west-indian-domestic-scheme-1955-1967-as-an-immigration-program-through-which-around-3000-women-from-cari.html.

Flynn, Karen. Moving Beyond Borders: A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.

What's up y'all , in this episode we are going to check out the history of Black Canadians role in Word War 1.

Music credits

I Can’t Stop by Punch Deck | https://soundcloud.com/punch-deck Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com

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The Universe Speaks by Arthur Vyncke | https://soundcloud.com/arthurvost Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Sources

"Artifact: Black Canadian Soldier's Equipment." Canadian War Museum, warmuseum.ca/collections/artifact/1017212

"Black Battalion History." Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, www.bccns.com/our-history/black-battalion-history/

"Black Canadians." Veterans Affairs Canada, 25 Feb. 2020, www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/people-and-stories/black-canadians

"Black Canadians and the Military: Black Volunteers in the Canadian Expeditionary Force." The Canadian Encyclopedia, 9 Sept. 2016, www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/black-volunteers-in-the-canadian-expeditionary-force

"Black History in Canada, 1900–1960." The Canadian Encyclopedia, 7 Feb. 2017, www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/black-history-in-canada-1900-1960

"Black History in Canada – No. 2 Construction Battalion." No. 2 Construction Battalion, www.no2-cef.ca/history/

"Challenges of the Black Canadian Experience." Library and Archives Canada, colab.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Challenges/Details/1027

"Construction Battalion: Black Soldiers from Pictou and the First World War." CBC News, 18 June 2017, www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/construction-battalion-black-soldiers-pictou-first-world-war-anniversary-1.4040018

"OfficialW5." YouTube, 11 Feb. 2019, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtsKIlk76T8&ab_channel=OfficialW5

Ruck, Calvin W. The Black Battalion: 1916-1920: Canada's Best Kept Military Secret. 1925