Three notebooks with handwritten annotations, class notes, and essays written by James Walker during his time as a student. Notes and essays cover Jewish History, the History of England, and the History of the Slave Trade.

Materials related to the course “Minorities” taught by James Walker at the University of Waterloo (1971 onwards). Includes table of contents for the course “Minorities” with themes of lectures, handwritten and types notes for the lectures and maps for:

• 1. Nova Scotia Black Loyalists (TYP).
• 2. Mimacs pre-contact society.
• 3. Mimacs – French period.
• 4. Mimacs – English period.
• 5. Course intro to History 227, 1971 to 1979.
• 6. Course Intro to History 204, 1981.
• 7. Canadian slavery.
• 8. Canadian slavery.
• 9. Blacks in the American Revolution.
• 10. Nova Scotia Black Loyalists – settlement and society.
• 11. Nova Scotia Black Loyalists economic conditions.
• 12. Black Loyalists settlement.
• 13. Black Loyalists economic conditions.
• 14. Black Loyalists society and culture.
• 15. Nova Scotia Exodus and impact / Refugees to 1840.
• 16. Nova Scotia Blacks.
• 18. Canada Fugitives in Ontario.
• 21. Canada. Nova Scotia since 1840.
• 22. Canada, patterns of prejudice since Confederation.
• 23. Canada. Patterns of prejudice & black response / revitalization of 1960s.
• 24. Canada. Black immigration.
• 25. Canada. Nova Scotia since 1968.
• 26. Black America summary overview.
• 27. American Slavery.
• 28. American Slavery fragment.
• 29. Black America. Free Blacks before the Civil War.
• 30. Free Blacks inc. UGRR.
• 31. Canada & the Civil War / Civil War / Reconstruction / Canada and Reconstruction.
• 32. Black America 1877-1903.
• 33. Black America 1903-1955.
• 34. Contemporary Black America.
• 35. Blacks in Canada.
• 36. West Indians.

Materials related to James Walker’s paper “The Indian in Canadian historical writing” which he wrote during his Master’s degree for the course History 600 “Historiography” in 1967, and later presented during the 1971 Canadian Historical Association (CHA) Annual General Meeting in St. John's, Newfoundland. Includes correspondence congratulating him on the paper and presentation, a travel application and claim form from Dalhousie University, a printout of paper and bibliography, notes and notebook for the paper, the paper he wrote and presented for History 600, and the paper for the CHA presentation.

Nine notebooks with the handwritten chapters for James Walker’s Master’s thesis titled "The Black loyalists of Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone," submitted to the University of Waterloo.

Fifteen notebooks with the manuscript for James Walker's Ph.D. dissertation. Notebooks were numbered by Walker as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7/8, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, Corrections 1 and introduction, and Corrections 2 and epilogue.

Eight notebooks with handwritten notes on primary (archival) and secondary research performed by James Walker during his Ph.D. research. Notes cover archives lists, catalogue lists, Black-Canadian history, and Nova Scotia Archives.