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Find out more about black Canadians who contributed to the building of Canada and who are making their mark every day.
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Danger, hardship, heroism and tragedy. All are features of black immigration to Canada in the nineteenth century.
The story of black immigration to Canada began 400 years ago with the arrival of the French at Port Royal. John Graves Simcoe, the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, signed the Act Against Slavery in 1793.
Many black people came to Canada by their own means. But the Underground Railroad, an informal network of people and places organized to help black people escaping slavery, was an important feature of immigration to Canada in the nineteenth century.
It’s estimated that between 20,000 and 40,000 black people arrived in Canada during the first half of the nineteenth century. Some consider that the number could be as high as 60,000.
Radio Canada International has produced a series of vignettes spotlighting some of the black Canadians that have marked the country’s past, as well as those that are marking Canada’s present.
Researchers: Nataly Lague, Audrey Flat
Editors: Suzanne Shugar, Audrey Flat
Translator: Nataly Laguë
Sound recording, sound effects, sound mixing: Angela Leblanc
Producer; casting, music selection: Suzanne Shugar
Executive Producer: Raymond Desmarteau
A Radio Canada International production
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Portraits of Black Canadians – Episode 1
We begin the first episode of our podcast series Portraits of Black Canadians with a short introduction into the history of slavery in the Americas.
Slavery Triangle
The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of black Africans into bondage.
Duration 3:01
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Portraits of Black Canadians – Episode 2
Mathieu Da Costa
Mathieu Da Costa, the first black man to arrive in Canada, is said to have been born in the Azores. Da Costa was a free black man who in the early 1600s was employed as a translator by French and Dutch traders and explorers. He spoke several languages including French, Dutch and Portuguese, as well as "pidgin" Basque, a language used by fishermen on the Atlantic coast that was a mix of a French-Basque dialect and First Nations languages including Mi' kmaq.
Duration 2:28
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Portraits of Black Canadians – Episode 3
Olivier Le Jeune
Olivier Le Jeune is the first black person known to have lived and died in Canada. He was also Canada’s first recorded African slave. Le Jeune was about seven years old when he was brought to Canada from Madagascar during the British invasion of what was known then as New France in 1628.
Duration: 2:09
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Portraits of Black Canadians – Episode 4
Slavery laws
A number of slavery laws, in addition to Indigenous slavery customs, existed in Canada both under the French rule and British rule until slavery was officially abolished in 1833.
Duration: 2:49
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Portraits of Black Canadians – Episode 5
Slave rebellions
Slaves in North America and the Caribbean staged several rebellions and engaged in other forms of resistance against their masters.
Duration: 3:02
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Portraits of Black Canadians – Episode 6
Africville
Today, we bring you the story of Africville, the beating heart of the African Canadian community in Nova Scotia until it was bulldozed over in the 1960s to make way for other projects, including private housing, ramps for the A. Murray MacKay Bridge, and the Fairview Container Terminal. The central area was turned into a dog park called Seaview Park.
Duration: 3:27
https://www.rcinet.ca/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/12/6-Africville.mp3
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