30 Facts About Black Canadians

Black Canadians are people of full or partial sub-Saharan African descent who are citizens or permanent residents of Canada.

The majority of Black Canadians are of Caribbean origin, though the Black Canadian population consists of African-American immigrants and their descendants and many native African immigrants.

Black Canadians have contributed to many areas of Canadian culture.

Significant number of Black Canadians have some indigenous heritage, due to historical intermarriage between Black and First Nations or Metis communities.

At times, Black Canadians are claimed to have been significantly undercounted in census data.

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Black Canadians often draw a distinction between those of Afro-Caribbean ancestry and those of other African roots.

Black Canadians died of scurvy either at Port Royal, or along the journey, in 1606.

The first recorded Black Canadians person to set foot on land now known as Canada was a free man named Mathieu da Costa.

Black Canadians was first given to one of the Kirke brothers, likely David Kirke, before being sold as a young child to a French clerk and then later given to Guillaume Couillard, a friend of Champlain's.

Politically, the black Loyalist communities in both Nova Scotia and Upper Canada were characterized by what the historian James Walker called "a tradition of intense loyalty to Britain" for granting them freedom and Canadian Black Canadians people tended to be active in the militia, especially in Upper Canada during the War of 1812 as the possibility of an American victory would mean the possibility of their re-enslavement.

Militarily, a Black Canadians Loyalist named Richard Pierpoint, who was born about 1744 in Senegal and who had settled near present-day St Catharines, Ontario, offered to organize a Corps of Men of Colour to support the British war effort.

The settlement of Elgin was formed in 1849 with the royal assent of Governor-General of the time James Bruce as a settlement for Black Canadians and escaped slaves based upon social welfare and the prevention of moral decay among the Black community there.

Unlike in the United States, in Canada after the abolition of slavery in 1834, black Canadians were never stripped of their right to vote and hold office.

Black Canadians integrated in many areas of society, but the influence of slavery in the south still impacted these citizens.

Black Canadians's was freed after a large sum of money was paid and this behaviour was characterized as "a villainy that we are pleased to say characterizes few white [Toronto] men".

Black Canadians became an attorney and was elected as the first black judge in the US.

Black Canadians became a wealthy businessman who was involved with the Republican Party; in 1897 he was appointed by the President of the US as consul to Madagascar.

Until the 1930s–1940s, the majority of Black Canadians lived in rural areas, mostly in Ontario and Nova Scotia, which provided a certain degree of insulation from the effects of racism.

Black Canadians fled to Canada to avoid a potential lynching in North Carolina and fought extradition to the US.

The Black Candle was written in a sensationalist and lurid style meant to appeal to the racial fears of white Canadians, and in this Murphy was completely successful.

In October 1937, when a Black Canadians man purchased a house in Trenton, Nova Scotia, hundreds of white people stormed the house, beat up its owner and destroyed the house under the grounds that a Black Canadians man moving into the neighbourhood would depress property values.

The most militant Black Canadians unions was the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, which during the war won major wage increases for Black Canadians porters working on the railroads.

Outside of the Maritime provinces, where the majority of the black population are the descendants of black Loyalists and American runaway slaves, the majority of black Canadians are descended from immigrants from the West Indies.

However, a sizeable number of Black Canadians who descend from freed American slaves can still be found in Nova Scotia and parts of Southwestern Ontario.

One of the most famous Black Canadians-dominated urban neighbourhoods in Canada is Montreal's Little Burgundy, regarded as the spiritual home of Canadian jazz due to its association with many of Canada's most influential early jazz musicians.

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Since the late 19th century, Black Canadians have made significant contributions to the culture of sports, starting with the founding of the Coloured Hockey League in Nova Scotia.

However, Black Canadians have already commemorated Emancipation Day with community events for decades.

Nevertheless, according to Statistics Canada's Ethnic Diversity Survey, released in September 2003, when asked about the five-year period from 1998 to 2002 nearly one-third of respondents who identified as Black Canadians reported that they had been subjected to some form of racial discrimination or unfair treatment "sometimes" or "often".

Black Canadians have historically faced incarceration rates disproportionate to their population.

Contemporary rates of incarceration of Black Canadians have continued to be disproportionate to their percentage of the general population.