Lincoln MacCauley Alexander was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first Black Canadian to be a member of Parliament in the House of Commons, a federal Cabinet Minister, a Chair of the Wo
Alexander in 2005
Alexander with Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother at the unveiling of the Flame of Hope at Banting House, July 1989.
Order Of Ontario given to Lincoln Alexander
Alexander with police horses at the 2005 Royal Winter Agriculture Fair
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
Lincoln Alexander
…Lincoln MacCauley Alexander (January 21, 1922 – October 19, 2012) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first Black Canadian to be a member of Parliament in the House of Commons, a federal Cabinet Minister (as federal Minister of Labour), a Chair of the Worker's Compensation…
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.