The University of Western Ontario Archives, J.J. Talman Regional Collection

Of particular significance are the Fred Landon Papers; the Canadian Black Studies Project (produced by the Cross Cultural Learner Centre); the Mary Shadd Cary and the Shadd Family papers, which relate to the Chatham area (on microfilm), as well as the Annie Straith Jamieson Papers, which contain materials on the Rev. William King.

Also held are volumes of The Dawn of Tomorrow (1923-) and annual reports of the Canadian League for the Advancement of Coloured People, which are found in the Landon Papers and the Donald Simpson thesis, Negroes in Canada from Early Times to 1870. Several monographs in the Archive reading room detail Black history- Under the North Star: Black Communities in Upper Canada before Confederation by Donald Simpson; Ontario’s African Canadian Heritage: Collected Writings of Fred Landon 1918-1967 by Karolyn Smard et al; Wilberforce Beginnings: The Wilberforce Settlement and the Butler Family by Victoria Purcell.