Canadian Black History Crossword

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  1. 3. (first and last name) Canada's First Black cowboy
  2. 6. (first name) First Black person to be awarded the Victoria Cross
  3. 8. "______ Alley" A place for "soul food and good jazz" in Vancouver
  4. 13. (first Name) Drake
  5. 14. The last home of this Black Settlement in Halifax was bulldozed in 1970
  6. 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
  7. 17. (nickname) played for the Philidelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, inducted into the national baseball hall of fame in 1991
  8. 18. (first name) First Black woman to become a lawyer in Canada(1954)
  9. 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
  10. 21. The Caribbean community in Toronto, Ontario, organized this carnival for the first time in 1967
  11. 22. (last name) Set up the first black newspaper in Canada, in 1851 "the voice of the Fugitive"
  12. 23. (first name)One of Canada's most highly decorated track athletes and once held the world record for the 100-metre sprint
  13. 24. (first name) Featured on the ten dollar Canadian bill
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  1. 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. 2. (first and last name) “King of Bay Street,” the first Black Dragon, on Dragon's den
  3. 4. (last name) Director of "Greenleaf", director and co-writer of "the book of Negroes" miniseries
  4. 5. (last name)The first person of African heritage known to have come to what is now Canada, arriving over 400 years ago
  5. 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
  6. 9. (first name)The first Black world champion in boxing history and the first Canadian to ever win a world championship
  7. 10. (last name) A prominent black family whose members were social activists as well as, famous musical artists, war heroes, professors, and business owners.
  8. 11. where did sit-ins occur in Canada in 1954
  9. 12. (first name) the original "Bey", “Canada’s First Lady of the Blues”
  10. 15. (first name) the first Black female newspaper publisher in Canada, "The Provincial Freeman", also established a racially integrated school for Black refugees
  11. 20. underground, this network had safe houses in Oakville Ontario