Celebrate Black History Month with us!

Choose a link below to explore the lives and legacies that have helped shape Canada’s story.

• • Portia White
    
    

• • Oscar Peterson
    
    

• • Rosemary Brown
    
    

• • Abraham Doras Shadd
    
    

• • William Hall, VC
    
    

• • Carrie Best
    
    

• • Fergie Jenkins
    
    

• • John Ware
    
    

• • Viola Desmond
    
    

• • Oliver Jones
    
    

• • Joe Fortes
    
    

• • Africville (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
    
    

• • Hogan’s Alley (Vancouver, British Columbia)
    
    

• • Nelson Mandela
    
    

• • No. 2 Construction Battalion
    
    

• • Mathieu DaCosta
    
    

• • Kay Livingstone
    
    

• • Lincoln Alexander
    
    

• • Albert Jackson
    
    

• • Colored¹ Hockey Championship
    
    

• • Amber Valley (Alberta)
    
    

• • Willow Grove (New Brunswick)
    
    

• • Eleanor Collins
    
    

• • Salome Bey
    
    

• • Chloe Cooley
    
    

• • Willie O’Ree
    
    

• • Mary Ann Shadd
    
    
    

¹ The use and spelling of the term “Colored” is retained in the title of this issue because it is historically accurate.