African-Canadian Portrait Gallery

17th Century:

• Matthieu da Costa: trader, interpreter

• Servant of painter Francois Beaucourt of New France

19th /20th Centuries:

• Mifflin Gibbs: Business entrpreneur and politician
• Josiah Henson:founder of the Dawn Settlement
• Elijah McCoy: inventor
• Peggy and Jupiter: Upper-Canadian slaves
• Mary Ann Shadd: Educator, publisher, author
• Harriet Tubman: conductor on the Underground Railroad
• John Ware: Alberta cowboy

• Dionne Brand: author
• Austin Clarke: author
• George Elliott Clarke: author
• Andrea Douglas: dancer
• Cecil Foster: author
• Oliver Jones: jazz pianist
• Oscar Peterson: jazz pianist and composer
• William Peyton Hubbard: politician
• Marlene Nourbese Phillip: author, former lawyer
• Joe Sealy: jazz pianist, composer
• Djanet Sears: writer/actor
• Hameed Shaqq: steel-pan musican
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