Black History in Canada

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  1. 2. Mathieu ___, first recorded free Black person to arrive in Canada in 1608.
  2. 5. In 1944, Ontario passed the Racial ___ Act, effectively prohibiting publication and display of any symbol, sign, or notice that expressed ethnic and racial discrimination.
  3. 7. Haitian-born ___ Jean, the first Black Governor General of Canada, appointed in 2005.
  4. 11. In 1851, the ___-___ Society of Canada was formed to aid in the extinction of slavery all over the world.
  5. 12. The settlement where the first shipload of enslaved Africans reached British North America 1619.
  6. 15. ___ Gibbs, the first Black politician in Canada, after being elected to the Victoria Town Council in 1866.
  7. 16. Harriet Tubman guided more than ___ hundred slaves to freedom in Canada over 19 secret missions.
  8. 18. Mary Ann ___, the first Black woman in North America to publish a newspaper and one of the first female journalists in Canada.
  9. 19. The Honourable Jean ___, the first Black Canadian woman elected to parliament in 1993.
  10. 20. In Nova Scotia, the largest free settlement of Africans in North America after the American Revolution.
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  1. 1. Viola ___, who became a catalyst for change after being arrested for sitting in a “Whites Only” section of a Nova Scotia theatre.
  2. 3. A cultural festival in Toronto that celebrates cultural pride, mutual respect, and social unity; founded in 1967.
  3. 4. ___ Abbot became Canada’s first Black physician in 1861.
  4. 6. A group of 600 freedom fighters who landed in Halifax from Jamaica.
  5. 8. Canada developed a reputation as a ___ ___ for Africans during the American Revolution (1775-1783).
  6. 9. Leonard ___, the first Black Canadian man elected to parliament in 1963.
  7. 10. ___ O’Ree, the first Black person to enter the NHL in a historic game against the Montreal Canadiens.
  8. 13. Slavery was ___ throughout the British colonies by the Imperial Act in 1834.
  9. 14. Nineteen ___ five, the year February was officially proclaimed Black History Month in Canada.
  10. 17. The Underground network of secret routes to help enslaved Africans escape into Canada.