Notable Figures
The Black Canadian civil rights activist and journalist, Carrie Best, was known for her efforts to end racial segregation during the 1940s and 1950s in this province.
What is Nova Scotia?
This province was home to four all-Black communities in the 1900s.
What is Alberta?
Born in Harlem in 1941, June Clark, an internationally recognized artist, moved to Toronto in the late '60s and has been recognized for her work expressing themes of Black diasporic identity, exile and memory work using these 3 mediums.
What is photography, sculpture and collage.
This Black Canadian named Sam Langford, became a world champion in this sport, holding the titles in England, Australia, Canada and Mexico but though he was one of the best fighters during his era never won in the United States.
What is boxing?
This Canadian entrepreneur became the first Black woman to own a beauty supply store, which started out of her home in 1970.
Who is Brandi Leifso?
In what year did Henry Sneed lead 194 African-Americans to Alberta from Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas.
What is 1911?
During this war about 2,000 Black refugees came to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
What is the War of 1812?
This organization, founded in 1968, aimed to address systemic racism and promote rights of Black Canadians?
What is The Black United Front?
This Canadian football star is a five-time CFL All-Star (2012, 2015–18) and a four-time Grey Cup champion (2011, 2019, 2021, 2022). After retiring in 2023, he became head of football operations and head coach of the Vancouver Island Raiders.
Who is Andrew Harris?
This Black Canadian athlete, Sam Richardson, was the first Canadian to win a gold medal in long jump and silver medal in triple jump at the Commonwealth Games in this year.
What is 1934?
This Black African interpreter for Dutch and French explorers and traders was the first documented black person to arrive in Canada in 1608.
Who is Mathieu Da Costa or Mathieu de Coste?
This incident in the 1940s in Nova Scotia, involved Black sailors protesting segregation in a local pub, leading to clashes with military police.
What is The Halifax Riot of 1945?
Renowned architect, Raymond Moriyama, designed this iconic building which was built in 1969, that stands in Toronto.
What is The Ontario Science Centre?
It was Moriyama's first large-scale project as an independent architect.
Angela James, OC, hockey player (born 22 December 1964 in Toronto, ON) was a pioneering and dominant force in women's hockey during the 1980s and 1990s, and is known as: ________________
The Wayne Gretzky of women's hockey.
This politician and physician, Lincoln M. Alexander, became the first Black Canadian to be elected as Member of Parliament in which year?
What is 1968?
This black businesswoman challenged racial segregation at a movie theater in Nova Scotia in 1946, a landmark event.
Who is Viola Desmond?
In this year the House of Commons officially recognized February as Black History Month in Canada.
What is 1995?
Practicing artist for over 30 years, Joan Butterfield is the producer and curator of this annual travelling exhibit which kicks off during Black History Month and has been showcased for the past 20 years in Ontario.
What is COLOURblind?
This sprinter, philanthropist is the first Canadian to break both the 10-second barrier in the 100 m dash and the 20-second barrier in the 200 m dash. He is the first Canadian sprinter to win three medals at a single Olympic Games.
Who is Andre De Grasse?
At the 2016 Olympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, De Grasse won silver in the 200 m, bronze in the 100 m and bronze in the 4x100 m relay. At the 2020 Games in Tokyo, he won gold in the 200 m and bronze in both the 100 m and the 4x100 m relay.
An Imperial Act abolished slavery in the British colonies on August 28, 1833, and took effect on August 1, 1834 which formally freed this number of slaves.
What is 800,000?
During the time of the Underground Railroad, Mary Ann Shadd came to Canada and was the country's first female _______.
What is newspaper publisher?
Mary Ann Shadd became the country’s first female publisher with her newspaper, The Provincial Freeman.
In 1734, this woman was executed for confessing to burning down 46 buildings in Montreal when she was attempting to escape from slavery.
Who is Marie-Joseph Angelique?
In 1998 this painter, poet, playwright, arts administrator and activist curated the first ever exhibition of Black Nova Scotian art and the first exhibition of art from and about Africville.
Who is David Woods?
Says Sylvia D. Hamilton, filmaker: "David has worked tirelessly for years to uncover early Black artists in Nova Scotia — to say, 'Yes, we have always created art, and here are the artists.'"
Charlie Culver, an African American who was misidentified as Cuban, became one of the best players in Quebec in this sport.
(He was also inducted into the Hall of Fame)
What is baseball?
In 1858 a group of about 800 Black immigrants, invited to settle in Western Canada by Governor James Douglas, left San Francisco and are recognized for what purpose in BC's history?
They helped to keep Vancouver Island safe from American hands trying to take over / colonize the area.