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Canadian Midwives of Colour History Project : Bibliography

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<p dir="ltr">In this archive the reader will find the primary and secondary sources collected as part of the Canadian Midwives of Colour History Project from which knowledge translation and mobilization projects were derived. This body of resources provides evidence of the existence of previously hidden African or Black midwives who were nation-builders in Canada, who practiced safely as evidenced by the birth registrations of healthy, live infants, and Black midwives who acted as community leaders in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Nova Scotia, Canada. The collection includes government issued documents such as census, birth registrations, immigration documentation and historical publications revealing identity, migration and settlement activities of Black midwives' families. This archive may be utilized for future exploration and knowledge mobilization by future scholars and learners. These sources are not exhaustive but provide a seminal collection that are connected to reproductive health, midwifery work and activism, Black Canadian history and Canadian immigration and settlement trends from 1800 the 1960s. Research Team members included. Dr. Karline Wilson-Mitchell DrNP, Assoc. Professor, Midwife; Dr. Karen Flynn PhD, Assoc. Professor, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign historian & archivist; Dr. Margaret MacDonald PhD, Assoc. Professor of Anthropology at York University; Dr. Megan J. Davies, Professor Emeritus York University, medical anthropologist; Dr. May Friedman, Toronto Metropolitan University, social worker; Dr. Cyrus Sundar Singh PhD, U of Toronto, filmmaker; as well as many talented midwifery, immigration and settlement, history and graphics student research assistants.</p><p><br></p>

Funding

This work was funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2019-2024; A Association of Ontario Midwives Career Researcher Grant 2021; and a SSHRC Connection Grant 2023-2024.

History

Contributor

The research team thanks all of the participants, key community knowledge holders, genealogists and Black Canadian leaders who contributed to this project. Beatrice Wilkins, storyteller, Cherrybrook, Nova Scotia; Amherstburg Freedom Museum in Ontario; Dr. Darlene Strong and Elizabeth Cooke-Sumbu, N.S. genealogists; Leander K. Lane, Shiloh Baptist Church and Restoration Society, Maidstone, Saskatchewan; Nancy Lee, Ontario genealogist and historian; Dr. Carolyn Thomas Hon, DTh., Nova Scotia, family genealogist; Juanita Peters, historian, film director, journalist and manager of Africville Museum, N.S.; Fatima Jackson-Best PhD, Assist. Professor, York University; Chandra Martini BHSc, RM, Alberta midwife; Cheryl Foggo, Amber Valley, Alberta Black historian and playwright; author and historian, Lawrence Hill, and the late Alvin B. Aberdeen Duncan (1913-2009), Oakville, Ontario Black historian.

Language

English