by Marian McGrath | Feb 11, 2023 | Black History Month
Maydianne Andrade is a Canadian ecologist and evolutionary biologist, renowned for her studies on the mating habits of spiders, and with professional interests in evolutionary ecology, sexual selection and adaptive plasticity. She is also an award-winning teacher,...
by Marian McGrath | Feb 10, 2023 | Black History Month
Charles Lightfoot Roman (1889-1961) Charles Lightfoot Roman was a surgeon, author, researcher and lecturer, and one of the first Black Canadians to graduate from McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine. He became a widely recognized expert in...
by Marian McGrath | Feb 9, 2023 | Black History Month
Today, we celebrate not a person, but an historic destination – the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre in Shelburne, Nova Scotia. It shares the story of an amazing group of Black people who lived there in the late 18 th century – at that time, comprising the world’s...
by Marian McGrath | Feb 8, 2023 | Black History Month
Lawrence Hill (born 1957) Lawrence Hill is an award-wining Canadian novelist, essayist, journalist, memoirist and educator. He was born in Newmarket, Ontario, and grew up in nearby Don Mills, a mostly white community. Hill’s father was African American and his mother...
by Marian McGrath | Feb 7, 2023 | Black History Month
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson (1925-2007) Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was a renowned jazz pianist, composer and educator, and one of Canada’s most honoured musicians. Born in Montréal, Peterson was mostly self-taught, yet he went on to amaze audiences worldwide with his...
by Marian McGrath | Feb 6, 2023 | Black History Month
Mathieu Da Costa (1589-1619) Historians believe the first Black person to come to Canada was Mathieu Da Costa. European colonizers hired him, as a free man, to work as an interpreter. There is not much verifiable information about Da Costa’s life, but it seems he was...
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