by Marian McGrath | Feb 23, 2023 | Black History Month
Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is a Canadian football player and physician – the fourth medical schoolgraduate to play in the National Football League (NFL) and the first active player to hold amedical degree. He is also an avid sailor since...
by Marian McGrath | Feb 22, 2023 | Black History Month
Portia May White, a gifted singer and teacher, was the first Black Canadian concert singer togain international renown. Born in Truro, Nova Scotia, Portia White was the third child in afamily of 13 children. Her father’s parents had been enslaved in the...
by Marian McGrath | Feb 21, 2023 | Black History Month
“To be Black and female in a society which is both racist and sexist is to be in the uniqueposition of having nowhere to go but up.” – Rosemary BrownRosemary Brown (née Wedderburn) was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and came to Canada in 1951to study social work, first...
by Marian McGrath | Feb 20, 2023 | Black History Month
Harriet Rhue Hatchett was an educator, missionary, musician, and writer/composer of songs,hymns and poems. In the First World War, the Canadian armed forces chose a hymn she hadwritten, entitled “The Sacred Spot,” as the official marching song of the Canadian troops....
by Marian McGrath | Feb 19, 2023 | Black History Month
John Ware was a Canadian cowboy who played a key role in developing southern Alberta’sranching industry. Renowned as an excellent horseman, and a man of great strength, good natureand courage, he was one of the first Black people to live in Alberta and...
by Marian McGrath | Feb 18, 2023 | Black History Month
Hugh L. Fraser is an Olympian and a recognized international expert in sports law, now retiredfrom an outstanding career as a justice of the Ontario Court of Justice. Fraser came to Canada from Jamaica when he was seven years old. At the time, his...
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