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The first recorded Black person in present-day New Brunswick, documented by historian William O. Raymond in his 1905 publishing of Glimpses of the past: history of the River St. John, AD 1604–1784, [6] [7] was in the late 17th century when a Black man from Marblehead (in present-day Massachusetts) was forcibly taken up the Saint John River after a raid upon the New England Colonies. [8]
About 2000 settled in Nova Scotia and about 400 settled in New Brunswick. [8] Together they were the largest single source of African-American immigrants, whose descendants formed the core of African Canadians. Black refugees in Nova Scotia were first housed in the former prisoner-of-war camp on Melville Island. After the War of 1812, it was ...
This would be the largest emancipation of African Americans prior to the American Civil War. [4] Of those that escaped to Canada, about 2000 settled in Nova Scotia and about 400 settled in New Brunswick. [5] Together they were the largest single source of African-American immigrants, whose descendants formed the core of African Canadians.
While African American culture is a significant influence on its Canadian counterpart, many African and Caribbean Canadians reject the suggestion that their own culture is not distinctive. [31] In his first major hit single "BaKardi Slang", rapper Kardinal Offishall performed a lyric about Toronto's distinctive Black Canadian slang:
The New Brunswick Black History Society was founded in June of 2010, [2] under PRUDE Inc., which oversaw it. [3]In June 2021, the organization opened New Brunswick's first Black History Heritage Site, located in Brunswick Square in the city of Saint John. [4]
The cemetery was founded in 1831, and is the resting place for many American Black loyalists and Black refugees who left the US for Saint John during the War of 1812. [2] Around the same time, the location also housed a church and a school for the Black community. [2] A replica church was constructed in 2024. [3]
A small Black community in Anne Arundel County goes back to the 1800s. Wilsontown, in Odenton, was where Quakers and freed slaves worked and lived together.
There is an African American diaspora in Canada. Around 15,000 to 20,000 African Americans settled in Canada between the years 1850 and 1860. [2] In the 1820s, Canada saw a trickle of enslaved African American seeking freedom and refuge from the United States.