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 Canadians in Ontario
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Black Canadians migrated north in the 18th and 19th centuries from the United States, many of them through the Underground Railroad, into Southwestern Ontario, Toronto, and Owen Sound. Black Canadians
Black Canadians
…refugees from the War 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…
Buxton National Historic Site and Museum, South Buxton, Ontario
Free Black family in front of home in Ontario