• The first Black person to set foot on Canadian soil was Mathieu Da Costa, a free man who was hired as a translator for Samuel de Champlain's 1605 excursion.
  
• Slavery existed in Canada from 1628 until it was abolished in Upper Canada in 1793 and throughout the entire British empire in 1833.
  
• In 1792, the first wave of Black migrants to Sierra Leone in Africa, left Nova Scotia, because promises of free land and equality by the British were not fulfilled.
  
• Many Black Americans escaped to Canada by joining the British Army during and immediately following the War of 1812.
  
• Harriet Tubman was responsible for freeing some 300 American slaves, including her aged parents on the Underground Railroad.
  
• Leonard Braithwaite became the first African-Canadian in a provincial legislature when he was elected, as the Liberal Member for Etobicoke, Ontario in 1963.
  
• On 4 August 2005, Prime Minister Paul Martin announced the appointment of Haitian-born Michaëlle Jean as Governor General of Canada.
  

Black Theatre Workshop:
http://www.blacktheatreworkshop.ca/

Little Burgundy, Montreal
http://www.arch.mcgill.ca/prof/mellin/arch671/winter2001/marcan/drm/html/
littleburgundy.htm

Montreal Black History Month
http://www.montrealblackhistorymonth.com/index.php?lang=en

Ville de Montréal, Bibliothèques publiques
http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=4276,33391654&_dad=portal&
_schema=PORTAL

The Black Inventor On-line Museum:
http://blackinventor.com/

Library of Congress:
http://www.africanamericanhistorymonth.gov/

The White House:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-proclamation-national-
african-american-history-month