We’ve been here since the 1600’s.
We invite you to research these people, places and events.
It is your history. It is Canadian history. It is Black History in Canada.
Places & Events
Abolition of Slavery in Upper and Lower Canada | Underground Railroad | Waterloo School House | Guelph African Methodist Episcopalian Church | Owen Sound Memorial Cairn | Most Northerly UGGR stop | Buxton National Historic Site and Museum | Dresden Colour Bar Crisis |Little Burgundy Neighbourhood in Montreal, Quebec | Africville, Nova Scotia | Caribana
People Working Together
Black Loyalist Soldiers | Maroons from Jamaica | Shiloh Settlers of Saskatchewan | B.C All Black Rifle Corps. | Sleeping Car Porters | Black Hockey League of Nova Scotia
Leaders
Oscar Peterson | Mathieu DaCosta | Olivier LeJeune | Marie Joseph Angelique | Dr Afua Cooper | Thomas Peters | Richard Pierpoint | John Ware | Albert Shadd | Cornelius Sparrow Brothers | Harriett Tubman | Josiah Henson | Mary Ann Shadd | Henry Bibb | Gov. James Douglas | Mifflin Gibbs | Marcus Garvey | Stan Grizzle | Rose Fortune | Devon Clunis | Rev William White | Viola Desmond | Hugh Burnett | Rosemary Brown | Bromley Armstrong | Leonard Austin Braithwaite | Howard McCurdy | Charles Roach | Michael Tulloch | Abraham Beverley Walker | Kay Livingston | Denham Jolly | Dudley Laws | Joe Sealy | Jackie Richardson | Ray Lewis | Harry Jerome | Donovan Bailey | Willie O’Ree | The Subban Brothers | Ferguson Jenkins | Rocky Jones | Lawrence Hill | George Elliott Clarke | Malcolm Gladwell | Esi Edugyan | Portia White | Eugenia Duodu | Oliver Jones | Jean Augustine | Lincoln Alexander | Michaelle Jean | Wally Peters
