North America-Canada-Quebec
Viola Davis Desmond (1914-1965)
Canadian entrepreneur Viola Desmond was arrested in 1946 for refusing to leave a segregated section of a Nova Scotia movie...
Jackie Robinson (1919-1972)
When Jack Roosevelt (Jackie) Robinson took the field on April 15, 1947 wearing a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, he became the...
Michael Norman Manley (1924-1997)
Michael Norman Manley, longtime prime minister of Jamaica, was born December 10, 1924 in the suburbs of Kingston, Jamaica to...
John Carlos (1945- )
John Carlos is best known for his black-gloved fist salute on the winner’s podium (with Tommie Smith) at the 1968...
Eliza [Sister Mary Magdalen] Healy (1846-1918)
Sister Eliza Healy was both an educator and noted first African American Mother Superior of a Catholic convent. Healy was...
Willie O’Ree (1935- )
Willie O’Ree, the National Hockey League’s (NHL) first black player, is an African–Canadian, born on October 15, 1935, in Fredricton,...
Rosemary Brown (1930-2003)
Rosemary Brown has the distinction of being the first black woman in Canada to be elected to public office. She...
James DePreist (1936-2013)
The African American conductor James DePreist was the nephew of the singer Marian Anderson. DePreist was the Permanent Conductor of...
Michaelle Jean (1957- )
Michaelle Jean, the Governor General of Canada, was born in Port au Prince, Haiti in 1957. At an early age...
