Black Canadians
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Black Canadians are citizens of Canada who have ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa. The Canadian-born were the largest Black population group in Canada in 2021, followed by the Afr
Mural with fictional representation of Marie-Joseph Angélique.
Anderson Ruffin Abbott, the first Black Canadian to be a licensed physician, participated in the American Civil War and attended the deathbed of Abraham Lincoln.
Monument in Pictou, Nova Scotia dedicated to abolitionist James Drummond MacGregor, who helped free Black Nova Scotian slaves
Rev. Samuel Ringgold Ward, c.1855. Ward had been forced to flee to Canada West in 1851 to escape charges of violating the Fugitive Slave Act by helping a run-away slave escape to Canada.
Black Nova Scotians
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Black Nova Scotians are Black Canadians whose ancestors primarily date back to the Colonial United States as slaves or freemen, later arriving in Nova Scotia, Canada, during the 18th and early 19th ce
Black Canadians
…of 1812. Their descendants primarily settled in Nova Scotia and Southern Ontario, where they formed distinctive identities such as Black Ontarians and Black Nova Scotians. Black Canadians have contributed to many areas of Canadian culture. Many of the first visible minorities to hold high public offices have been black…
Population distribution of Black Canadians in Nova Scotia by census division, 2021 census
1788 illustration of a Black woodcutter in Shelburne, Nova Scotia
Rose Fortune, Black Loyalist – Annapolis Royal c. 1830
Lawrence Hartshorne, d. 1822, a Quaker who was the chief assistant of John Clarkson in helping the Black Nova Scotian Settlers emigrate to Sierra Leone (1792) – Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia)