Sources

Documents

• Census Records for Wellington County 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901

• Guelph City Directory 1882-83

• Wellington County Atlas

• An Historical Map of Waterloo and Wellington Counties

• Wellington County Directory 1871

• AMAA Canadian microfilm reels of correspondence between the missionaries in the Queen's Bush Settlement and the American Missionary Association (Wellington County Museum & Archives)

• Video: Hymn to Freedom: Ontario - A History Buried

Newspaper Articles

• Canadian Press, "Canadians mark Black History Month", Canadian Newswire (February 15, 1995), pp. 1-2.

• Michele A. DuCharme, "The History of Guelph's Black Community" in The Ontarion (March 26, 1985), p.7.

• Vik Kirsch, "Guelph church was once refuge for slaves" in The Guelph Mercury (November 8, 1994).

• Jon Wells, "Church's Rebirth Invokes Memories of Black History" in The Guelph Tribune (November 2, 1994), p.22.

• "Anti-Slavery Lecture", The Elora Backwoodsman, Thursday, July 1, 1852.

• The Galt Reporter, Friday, December 10, 1858

• "Remember the poor coloured orphans", Fergus - The British Constitution, Friday, December 9, 1864.

• "A Darkey in Trouble", The Elora Observer, Friday, April 7, 1865V

• "Lecture in Elora", Lightning Express, Friday, May 24, 1872

• "Minstrel Troupe", The Elora Observer, Friday, April 4, 1873

• "Coloured Jubilee Concert", The Elora Express, Thursday, October 24, 1895

• "Negroes had first schools in Peel Township", The Advocate, Thursday, October 20, 1955

Academic Literature

• Ken Alexander and Avis Glaze, Towards Freedom: The African-Canadian Experience (Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1996).

• Linda Brown-Kubisch, "The Black Experience in the Queen's Bush Settlement" in Ontario History, Volume LXXXVIII (2), (June 1996), 103-177.

• Linda Brown-Kubisch, "The Missionaries in the Black Settlement of the Queen's Bush" in Wellington County History, 1996, pp. 72-87.

• Linda Brown-Kubisch, "The Queen's Bush Settlement" - Masters Thesis for the University of Missouri-Columbia, 1995.

• Culture and Communications, "Slaves" in Survivors (Archives of Ontario, 1988).

• Benjamin Drew, The Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada 1856

• Gary French, Men of Color (Orillia: Dymont-Stubley Printers).

• Kenneth W. Goings and Raymond A. Mohl, "Toward A New African American Urban History" in Journal Of Urban History, 21 (March 1995): pp. 283-295.

• John Webster Grant, A Profusion of Spires (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988).

• Robert Hamilton, Guelph's Bands and Musicians (Guelph: Hamilton Art Studio, 1996).

• Daniel Hill, The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada (Agincourt: The Books Society of Canada, 1981).

• Leo Johnson, The History of Guelph 1827-1927

• William Kell, Sketches of the Early Settlement of the North Riding of Wellington Township of Peel (1849)

• Pat Mestern, Looking Back - A History of Fergus

• David Meyler, "Strange Destiny: The Garafraxa Settlement of Richard Pierpoint" in Wellington County History, pp. 66-71.

• Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Life and Labour in the Old South (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929).

• Roger Riendeau, An Enduring Heritage: Black Contributions to Early Ontario (Toronto: Dundurn Press Ltd., 1984).

• Jason H. Silverman and Donna J. Gillie, "The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Education and the Fugitive Slave in Canada", in Ontario History, LXXIV (2), 95-109.

• Robin Winks, The Blacks in Canada: A History (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1971.

Collections

• Aylestock Family Genealogy File

• Bollen Family Genealogy File

• Groat Family Genealogy File

• Hisson Family Genealogy File

• Jewell Family Genealogy File

• Kelso Family Genealogy File

• Black History Collection at Guelph Museums

• Black History Collection at Wellington County Museum and Archives