What is the Maafa?
April 19, 2026
In 1999, Thomas Peters, one of the founding fathers of Sierra Leone, was honoured by the Sierra Leone...
In 1734, Marie-Joseph Angélique was accused of setting a fire that destroyed the city’s merchants’ quarter in Montreal....
In 1628, the first Black person known to have lived in Canada was a native of Madagascar. He was kidnapped and sold between the ages of 6-9 years old by the...
Jeremiah “Jerry” Alvin Jones (March 30, 1858 – November 23, 1950) was an African Canadian soldier who served...
Chloe Cooley was a young enslaved Black woman in Canada during the late 1700s. On March 14, 1793...
Rose Fortune (March 13, 1774-February 20, 1864), a Black Loyalist originally from the US, is best-known for her talent as a businesswoman at a time when neither women nor Black persons...
Mary Ann Shadd, was the first Black woman in North America to publish a newspaper and the first...
John Armstrong Howard was the first Black Olympic athlete from Canada, competing in the 1912 Summer Olympics. The...
Harry Jerome was one of the fastest men in the world for nearly a decade. He equaled and set numerous Canadian sprint records, as well as several world records. He participated...
David Downey, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia is an all-around athlete in softball, basketball, volleyball, baseball, track, and...
John Ware lived in what we may consider the golden age of the ranching frontier and achieved heroic...
Delos Rogest Davis, teacher and lawyer (August 4, 1846- April 13, 1915) was the second Black lawyer in Canada and the first Black person appointed to the King’s Counsel in all...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
