African-Canadian
Portrait Gallery
Click on the name of the great Canadian you wish to see!
17th Century:
Matthieu da Costa:
trader, interpreter
18th Century:
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
20th/21st Centuries:
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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