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He immigrated to Canada as a refugee in 1993, settling in Toronto. Although not the first black Cabinet minister, Hussen is the first to be of immediate African descent. Marci Ien MP for Toronto Centre: 26 October 2021: Incumbent: Incumbent: Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth (2021–present) Ien is a Black Canadian [5] of ...
Alberta had an increased rate of black immigration from the United States in the early 1900s, partially due to black fur-traders seeking employment. In Edmonton, the city council passed a 1911 motion to end further black immigration. The council claimed that black immigration was detrimental to the province and that black and white Albertans ...
Preston, in the Halifax area, is the community with the highest percentage of Black people, with 69.4%; it was a settlement where the Crown provided land to Black Loyalists after the American Revolution. [21] Brooks, a town in southeastern Alberta, is the census subdivision with the highest percentage of Black people, with 22.3%. The community ...
Canada had also practiced segregation, and a Canadian Ku Klux Klan exists. [34] [35] Racial profiling occurs in cities such as Halifax, Toronto and Montreal. [36] [37] Black people made up 3% of the Canadian population in 2016, and 9% of the population of Toronto (which has the largest communities of Caribbean and African immigrants). [38]
The Employment Equity Act designates four groups as the beneficiaries of employment equity: [1]. Women; People with disabilities; Aboriginal peoples, a category consisting of Status Indians, Non-status Indians, Métis (people of mixed Indigenous-French ancestry in western Canada), and Inuit (the Indigenous people of the Arctic).
Lincoln Alexander, first Black Member of Parliament in Canada, former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario; Toya Alexis, R&B/pop singer and Canadian Idol season 1 finalist; Aisha Alfa, actress and comedian; Ismaila Alfa, radio host; Thom Allison, actor; Jean Alfred, first Black Canadian member of the National Assembly of Quebec; Lillian Allen, dub poet
The first recorded Black person in present-day New Brunswick, documented by historian William O. Raymond in his 1905 publishing of Glimpses of the past: history of the River St. John, AD 1604–1784, [6] [7] was in the late 17th century when a Black man from Marblehead (in present-day Massachusetts) was forcibly taken up the Saint John River after a raid upon the New England Colonies. [8]
Canada’s first professional Black arts centre Not started. Black Loyalist Heritage Centre: A museum: Black Loyalist communities in Nova Scotia Not started. Saskatchewan African Canadian Heritage Museum: A virtual museum: people of African descent in Saskatchewan Not started. Canada Black Music Archives: Canada Black Music Archives Not started.