Showing posts with label Crawford Kilian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crawford Kilian. Show all posts

Monday, February 09, 2009

Black History Month - British Columbia, Canada

The Tyee has recently published three excerpts on-line from Crawford Kilian's book,
Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia (Burnaby, BC, Canada: Commodore Books, 2008, 2nd Edition)

"The Freeing of Charles Mitchell", TheTyee.ca, published 5 February, 2009: http://thetyee.ca/Books/2009/02/05/CharlesMitchell

"BC's Black Pioneer Women", TheTyee.ca, published 6 February 2009: http://thetyee.ca/Books/2009/02/06/BlackPioneerWomen

"The Barber Sleuth of Old Barkerville", The Tyee.ca, published 9 February, 2009: http://thetyee.ca/Books/2009/02/09/BarberSleuth

The Tyee published a similar series last year, including

" 'God-sent Land for Colored People' - BC's black pioneers arrived 150 years ago today. Why they came" by Crawford Kilian. TheTyee.ca, published 25 April, 2008: http://thetyee.ca/Life/2008/04/25/GodSentLand


ADDITIONAL LINKS

Pioneers: Blogging the Black Pioneers of British Columbia, Crawford Kilian: http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/pioneers

Commodore Books, Western Canada's first and only black literary press: http://www.commodorebooks.com