Art
Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art, was a 2018 exhibit that presented the contemporary works of nine Canadian artists at this famous Toronto spot.
Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
This famous Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur, initially gained recognition as an actor on the Canadian teen drama television series Degrassi: The Next Generation, in the early 2000s.
Drake
Who is the author of the novel The Book of Negroes?
Lawrence Hill
He is considered the greatest track star in Canadian history, with gold medals in the 100-metre sprint and 4 by 100 relay.
Donovan Bailey
Founded by Aaron Prothro in 2015, this Toronto-based brewery is one of Canada’s only Black-owned breweries.
Mascot Brewery
"The Secret Codes" is an art installation from a group comprised of mostly Black women from the Vale Road area of New Glasgow in Nova Scotia. The installation explores the ways that this particular form of art was used as coded communication for people escaping slavery, as documentary records of community and family history, as a celebration of Black women and Black culture, and as a foundation for other art forms.
Quilting
Oscar Peterson is still considered one of the world’s greatest:
Jazz pianists
The experiences of freedom seeker Reverend Josiah Henson, who escaped to Canada in 1830, were the subject of what famous novel?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Jackie Robinson played on this Canadian baseball team before making his historic debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947
Montreal Royals
This is a traditional rice dish from West Africa, made with long-grain rice, tomatoes, chilies, onions etc..
Jollof Rice
Justin Augustine’s work explores Black identity, borrowing architectural details from his home province, Nova Scotia, and from this country that is his Caribbean birthplace.
Dominica
In 1967, ten Torontonians - all with a common Caribbean heritage - founded what popular cultural festival?
Caribana
In 2017, patrons of A Different Booklist, which specializes in literature related to the African-Caribbean diaspora, carried boxes of books across which street to the store’s new home?
Bathurst St
The only black man to ever win the singles titles at Wimbledon, the US Open and the Australian Open.
Who is Arthur Ashe?
This is the Jamaican national dish
Ackee and Saltfish (Salt cod)
Launched in 2015, Yasin Osman founded this youth-led grassroots organization that delivers high quality community programming that makes art and arts opportunities accessible for underserved youth.
Shoot For Peace
Jackie Shane was a pioneering transgender performer who became a prominent figure in which music genre in Toronto in the 1960s?
R&B
During the mid-1850s, which abolitionist newspaper edited by Mary Ann Shadd moved its operations from Windsor to Toronto?
Provincial Freeman
Canadians were selected with the top picks of the NBA Draft in both 2013 and 2014. Both Anthony Bennett and Andrew Wiggins were originally selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers, but suited up for which team in 2014-15?
Minnesota Timberwolves
This is the giant spongy-like bread on which many Ethiopian foods are served
Injera
Since his death at the age of 27 in 1988, his work has increased in value, with a 1982 painting "Untitled" becoming one of the most expensive paintings ever purchased at $110.5 million.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Hill’s children, Dan, Karen and Lawrence, have each had notable careers in the arts. Which ballad sung and co-written by Dan reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1977?
Sometimes When We Touch
What was the name of Henry Bibb’s newspaper, the first Black newspaper in Canada, that reported on the Underground Railroad and colonization schemes?
The Voice of the Fugitive
During the Great Depression, this all-Black organized baseball team came from Chatham, Ontario.
The Coloured All-Stars
This was Toronto’s first soul food restaurant, which operated between 1969 and 1990 and whose owners included former Argos John Henry Jackson and Dave Mann, club operator Howard Matthews and musician Archie Alleyne.
Underground Railroad