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Forum - Cultural Diversity and Employment
Cultural diversity and employment remain important issues for Quebec cultural communities. On November 17, 2012 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Black Studies Center Building, 1968 De Maisonneuve, the Quebec Board of Black Educators in collaboration with the BSC and ICED (JMSB, Concordia) hosted a town hall forum to discuss this issue. The event was billed as QBBE Conference and Workshops on Businesses Operating in the Cracks of the Market. For more information contact Professor C. Bayne at bayne@jmsb.concordia.ca or qbbe@videotron.ca. Also keep checking this site for future publication of links to videos and papers.
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For well over forty years, the Black Studies Centre (BSC) has been providing a wide range of services to the Montreal community and to its various institutions. We look forward to serving you more in the future.
Dr. Clarence Bayne - President of The BSC
Dr. Bayne obtained his BA in Economics and Political Science and his MA in Economics at the University of British Columbia. He then enrolled at McGill University, where he did his Master's comprehensives in Transportation Economics, and completed his PhD in Economics, specializing in econometrics and monetary and macro-economic theory. His doctoral thesis is entitled "A Study of the Oil Industry of Trinidad and Tobago in the World Oil Economy". He was the Director of the DIA/DSA Program from 1991-2006. He is the Director of the Institute for Community Entrepreneurship and Development (ICED).
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BSC Town Hall Meetings
The BSC hosted a special workshop Saturday 17 November 2012. The workshop discussed chronic unemployment among Black youth and proposed that Blacks follow employment patterns in Quebec and Canada and intensify their efforts to start small businesses and selfemployment enterprises. The meeting pointed to the fact that there are less than 5 Black controlled businesses per 1000 Blacks in Quebec, compared to the provincial average of 62 per 1000 population. Speakers were Vim Naidoo (financial consultant), Kelly Francis (corporate lawyer), Dr. Clarence Bayne (Director ICED, Concordia), and Peter Francis (communication technologist). Mr Francis illustrated the information and communication properties of a virtual studio being developed in collaboration with the BSC as part of a digitized communication network under study and construction by Professors Saade and Bayne of ICED with support from the David O'Brien Center for Sustainable Enterprise Award.
The one day workshop was sponsored by Quebec Board of Black Educators (QBBE). There were 25 persons in attendance.
The BSC ArchiveThe BSC archive consist of a unique collection of items documenting over seventy years of the black community's existence in Quebec and Canada. We are presently seeking an active Volunteer to assist in the cataloging of documents and artifacts. |
MARIE-JOSEPH ANGÉLIQUECirca 1710, Angélique was born in Portugal, which was an important player in the lucrative Atlantic slave trade, and was later sold to a Flemish man named Nichus Block[2] or Nicolas Bleeker[3] who brought her to the New World. |
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In 2004, The Black Studies Center in partnership with Concordia University began a small business incubator initiative to stimulate the growth of local businesses.It is the only program of its kind in the Montreal Black Community. Today, this initiative continues to support new businesses both physical and virtual.