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Black Canadian

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Black Canadian

n. — Ethnicities

a Canadian of African descent.

Type: 1. Origin — Formed in analogy to black American, the term black Canadian has been in use since the late 1960s. As the data shows (refer to Chart 2 at the entry for African-Canadian), just under 30% of uses today use this term, while about two-thirds prefer the term African(-)Canadian. The term Afro(-)Canadian is used today only in a small minority of cases (under 10%).
Black Canadian is not listed in any of the dictionaries in our set.

Quotations

1760
So Britain's troops, when they remember'd Zell, And fcalping knives, frown'd with refentment fell, With gen'rous rage! they beat Quebec to ground! And recompence moft jult, the black Canadians found.
1968
Much of this work has been preparation for progress, rather than full achievement. The Indians who spoke at the Ottawa conference made justifiable demands for racial justice. So did the black Canadians from the Maritimes.
1976
Although most Canadians seem prone to ignore the fact, there were waves of "colored" immigration decades, generations and even centuries ago. Yes, there were Blacks in "Canada" before this country even existed. Who are these latecomers who would now like to institute a system whereby their discriminatory actions (arising out of irrational fears and hatred), would gain the support of legitimization? Twenty million emphatic NOs to any changes which would bend the official stance of this country in that direction. We, Black Canadians of several generations' residence here, will suffer if we allow our government to be swayed by these fears.
1983
This month is Black History Month. Although theirs has not been a high profile role the black have played a part in the formation and the History of Canada. To honor and celebrate the efforts of Black Canadians in the building of Canada, February has been designated a special month of celebration. The first black to come to Canada was named Mathew [sic] Dacosta and he arrived with Champlain in Port Royal in 1606.
1989
Mitalene Fletcher, a black Canadian, said it's common for people to assume that she is from outside of Canada. When she tells them she's from Kitchener-Waterloo, they ask, "But no, where are you really from?"
"I want people to know that there are black Canadians."
1994
His job was to keep the lines of communication open between the people who joined the military and their families, who were left behind when duty called. He reached the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1976, the first black Canadian to reach that level.
2007
The 1851 Census of Canada showed a rise in Black Canadians as a result of the United States Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which spurred the migration of many fugitive slaves and free blacks to Canada.
2007
Ettie Rutherford wishes there wasn't a need for Black History Month. But negative images have long overshadowed the contributions of black Canadians. "I still run into people who don't know we had black slaves in Canada," says the provincial representative of the Congress of Black Women of Canada (CBWC).
2016
So the emergence of the Black Lives Matter campaign against police discrimination in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver is not some copycat echo of a far more violent U.S. crisis; it is a reflection of the lived experiences of many black Canadians, which are measurably different, on average, from those of white and other minority Canadians.