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Federal electoral districts represented by visible minorities during the 42nd Canadian Parliament (2015–2019) marked by party colour. This list comprises persons who belong to a visible minority group who have been elected to the federal House of Commons, legislative assemblies of provinces and territories, and members appointed to the Senate.
British abolitionists ultimately founded Freetown in what became Sierra Leone on the coast of West Africa as a place to resettle Black Loyalists from London and Canada and Jamaican Maroons. Nearly 2,000 Black Loyalists left Nova Scotia to help found the new African colony. Their descendants are the Sierra Leone Creole people. [15] [16] [17] [18]
The following is a list of nominated candidates and those seeking nominations for the 2025 Canadian federal election.Nominations announced before the new representation order are assumed to apply to whatever new riding most closely corresponds to ridings under the old representation order; riding names from the old representation order are in italics.
In 1996 the Black Loyalist Heritage Society secured a national historic site and monument board in Birchtown to recognise the landing of the black loyalists in Canada in 1783. [6] When Birchtown was founded in 1783 it was the largest settlement of free black people in North America. [1]
The 2021 Canadian federal election was held on September 20, 2021, to elect members of the House of Commons to the 44th Canadian Parliament.The writs of election were issued by Governor General Mary Simon on August 15, 2021, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau requested the dissolution of parliament for a snap election.
The 2025 Canadian federal election will elect members of the House of Commons to the 45th Canadian Parliament.The election will be called after the governor general dissolves parliament (via request from the prime minister) but, under the fixed-date provisions of the Canada Elections Act, must be held no later than October 20, 2025
As a result, 1,196 Black settlers in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia left for Sierra Leone, following planning from Thomas Peters. [11] An additional wave of 371 African-American refugees arrived in 1815, following the War of 1812. [10] In the early 1800s, one of Canada's first Black settlements, Elm Hill, was founded by Black loyalists. [12]
The Underground Railroad was a secret network that helped African Americans escape from slavery in the South to free states in the north and to Canada. [4] Harriet Tubman helped enslaved black people escape to Canada. [5] Around some 1,500 African Americans migrated to the Plains region of Canada in the years between 1905 and 1912.