Dorothy Williams, PhD, is a historian who specializes in Black Canadian history. She has authored three books and contributed to other scholarly and academic publications: in 1989, Blacks in Montreal, 1638-1986: An Urban Demography, its translation, in 1998, Les Noirs à Montréal, Essai de demographic urbain, and finally, in 1997, The Road to Now: A History of Blacks in Montreal, the only chronological study of Blacks on the island of Montreal.
