Coming to Canada
In 1860, The Victoria Rifles Company was formed to help defend Victoria from American Invasion, how many Black Men volunteered to be part of the unit
Who is 45 Black Men
Many formerly enslaved people came to Canada and married Indigenous people and their children became the first Afro-Indigenous people, a blend that has existed for how many years
What is 400 Years
It is estimated that more than four thousand Black men, women and children were enslaved in Canada between 1628 and 1834. The law during that time did not consider them to be people or have any _____ and _____
What is Rights and Freedoms
Daniel G. Hill became the first director of the Ontario Human Rights Commision in 1962. He later wrote and published what important book about early black settlers and movements towards the abolishment of slavery, in 1981
What is The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada
A free man named Mathieu da Costa is the first person of African decent to arrive in Canada. He was an interpreter for _____'s 1608 expedition that led to the founding of New France and Quebec City
Who is Samuel de Champlain
This writer who has won the David Adams Richards award for non-fiction writing was the first Indigenous editorial intern for The Walrus magazine
Who is Oscar Baker The Third
The 1793 Act to Limit Slavery consisted of many laws to limit slavery in Upper Canada (Ontario), one of these laws stated that children born into slavery after 1793 could be enslaved until they became how old
What is 25 years old?
Dorothy Shadd Shreve was a member of what women's group that gave financial help to community members in North Buxton
Who are the Busy Bees
What settlement just north of London was set up by Black people form Cincinnati and a religious group known as the Quakers
What is the Wilberforce settlement
What word meaning "the people" is used by the Mi'kmaq to mean themselves
What is L'nu
Olivier Le Jeune, the first known enslaved African to live in Canada was six years old when he first came to Canada, he died in 1654 at the age of thirty but on his grave it said he was a _____, a common term used for enslaved people
What is a servant
What city was sometimes called the Black Mecca, because, like the centre of the Muslim faith in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, it was a place many Black people looked to as a centre of their community.
Where is the city of Chatham
Around 140,000 people from Haiti now live in Canada with many in the 1960s moving into an area of Montreal know as what
Where is Little Burgundy
The enslaved Africans worked for no pay in harsh conditions throughout these two places
Where is the Caribbean Islands and Turtle Island
This year, Owen Sound will be celebrating Emancipation Day for the 160th time. Back in 2004, a Black History cairn was unveiled in what park in Owen Sound
Where is Harrison Park
Wilma Morrison fought to save the British Methodist Episcopal Church from demolition, the church was later renamed to what Canadian Black composer
Who is Nathaniel Dett
Lincoln Alexander was the first Black person to be a cabinet minister in Canada in 1979 and later became the first Black Canadian to be lieutenant-governor of a province in 1985. His mother is from _____ and his father is from the island of _____
Where is Jamaica and St.Vincent
Afro-Anishinaabe author, filmmaker and and broadcaster, Adeline Bird wrote what book about self-love
What is Be Unapologetically You
In 1793, Chloe Cooley, an enslaved Black Woman was sold to a new American owner, she screamed and struggled and caught the attention of what Black Man and former soldier
Who is Peter Martin
Keystone (now Breton) was home to about 800 African Americans who came form what two American States to settle in the Canadian Prairies
Where is the states of Oklahoma and Kansas