Black Canadian

The term Black Canadian refers to Canadian citizens who are of African descent. Black Canadians for the most part have recent origins in the Caribbean region, and to a lesser extent Africa and even Latin America. Some Black Canadians, like those in Nova Scotia, trace their ancestry to freed black American slaves who fled to Canada seeking refuge from American slavery and institutional racism.

References

• Ethnic Diversity Survey
• Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, A Black Preacher, eighteenth-century autobiography of Black Loyalist and Nova Scotia minister Boston King