Famous Black Females
This woman was a self-emancipated American former slave who escaped to Canada with her husband and helped him establish the first taxi company.
Who is Lucie Blackburn?
This man became the first black person to be elected to the public office in B.C.
Who is Mifflin Wistar Gibbs?
This man is the first Black athlete to play professional ice hockey in the NHL.
Who is Willie O'Ree?
The name of the route used by enslaved people in the American South to escape to Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This is the name of Canada’s first and only all-Black battalion.
What is No 2. Construction Battalion?
This woman became the first Canadian woman to appear on a Canadian banknote.
Who is Viola Davis Desmond?
This man is the first Black MP LT. Governer of Canada between 1985-1991.
Who is Lincoln Alexander?
This man is the first black athlete to be named caption of a NHL team.
Who is Jarome Iginla?
Jackie Robinson played on this Canadian baseball team before making his historic debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
Who are the Montreal Royals?
The Black Loyalists that established themselves in Atlantic Canada were involved in which conflict?
This woman was the first black female lawyer in Canada.
Who is Violet King?
This man was the first recorded slave to live in Canada.
Who is Olivier LeJeune?
This woman won the 2003 World Champion in the 100 metres hurdles and 2004 World Indoor Champion in the 60 metres hurdles.
Who is Perdita Felicien?
Historians consider him the first Black person known to have visited Canada, probably in the company of Pierre Dugua de Mons and Samuel de Champlain.
Who is Mathieu Da Costa?
In 1967, ten Torontonians of West Indian heritage founded the Caribana cultural festival to celebrate the traditions of the Caribbean.
A) 1958
B) 1967
C) 1975
D) 1999
When is B) 1967?
This women is the first Black woman elected to a Canadian Legislature.
Who is Rosemary Brown?
This man is one of two black Members of Parliament in Canada and is currently the chair of the Black Caucus.
Who is Greg Fergus?
This man is the first black boxing champion of any class.
Who is George Dixon?
In 1946, Nova Scotian businesswoman Viola Desmond challenged racial segregation by...
What is refusing to leave the Whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, NS?
Michaëlle Jean, the first Black person to serve as Governor General, was born in this country.
Where is Haiti?
This woman not only became the first Black senator in the Senate of Canada but also the whole of North America in 1984.
Who is Anne Clare Cools?
This man is the first Black Canadians sailor as well as the first Famous Black Canadians to receive the Victoria Cross
Who is William Hall?
This man once held the world record for the 100 metres at a record time of 9.84 seconds which won Canada the gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games.
Who is Donovan Bailey?
In what year did The Imperial Statute effectively allowed settlers to bring enslaved persons to Upper Canada.
When is 1790?
In 2010, the mayor of Halifax apologized for the destruction of this historic Black community in the 1960s?
What is Africville?