Canadian Black History Crossword
Across
- 3. (first and last name) Canada's First Black cowboy
- 6. (first name) First Black person to be awarded the Victoria Cross
- 8. "______ Alley" A place for "soul food and good jazz" in Vancouver
- 13. (first Name) Drake
- 14. The last home of this Black Settlement in Halifax was bulldozed in 1970
- 16. (last name) Hon. First African-Canadian woman to be elected to Canada’s House of Commons, responsible for February being designated black history month in Canada
- 17. (nickname) played for the Philidelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, inducted into the national baseball hall of fame in 1991
- 18. (first name) First Black woman to become a lawyer in Canada(1954)
- 19. (city) In 1969, where did more than 200 students decide to peacefully occupy the ninth floor of the Henry F. Hall Building at Sir George Williams University
- 21. The Caribbean community in Toronto, Ontario, organized this carnival for the first time in 1967
- 22. (last name) Set up the first black newspaper in Canada, in 1851 "the voice of the Fugitive"
- 23. (first name)One of Canada's most highly decorated track athletes and once held the world record for the 100-metre sprint
- 24. (first name) Featured on the ten dollar Canadian bill
Down
- 1. (nickname) One of the most accomplished athletes in Canadian Football League (CFL) history and the first African American to coach in the Grey Cup.
- 2. (first and last name) “King of Bay Street,” the first Black Dragon, on Dragon's den
- 4. (last name) Director of "Greenleaf", director and co-writer of "the book of Negroes" miniseries
- 5. (last name)The first person of African heritage known to have come to what is now Canada, arriving over 400 years ago
- 7. (last name) Fred ____ was refused service at a bar in 1936 because he was black, the supreme court upheld the decision of the bar
- 9. (first name)The first Black world champion in boxing history and the first Canadian to ever win a world championship
- 10. (last name) A prominent black family whose members were social activists as well as, famous musical artists, war heroes, professors, and business owners.
- 11. where did sit-ins occur in Canada in 1954
- 12. (first name) the original "Bey", “Canada’s First Lady of the Blues”
- 15. (first name) the first Black female newspaper publisher in Canada, "The Provincial Freeman", also established a racially integrated school for Black refugees
- 20. underground, this network had safe houses in Oakville Ontario