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1 Notable black Canadians, past and present
1 Multiracial Canadians
1.1 Related topics
1.2 References
Black Canadian is a term used to identify a Canadian of predominantly, or at least partial, African descent. Historically the majority of those in Canada of African descent have been black, therefore the term is not typically used to apply to non-black people. It is also becoming increasingly common to refer to a black Canadian as an African Canadian or Afro-Canadian, with the US term African American being sometimes used as well.

Many black Canadians, or blacks as they are sometimes known, are descendants of persons who left the United States to escape from slavery during the 1800s, black Canadian slaves, and persons who immigrated to Canada from the West Indies and Africa during the 20th century.

The first black people arriving in Canada were slaves from New England or the Caribbean. Between 1763 and 1865, most of the immigrants were fleeing the United States because of slavery. The United States have remained the main source of new black immigrants up till the sixties, when people from the Caribbean were coming in en masse.

According to the 2001 Census 662,215 Canadians identified themselves as black, approximately 2% of the entire Canadian population ( Statistics Canada). The majority of black Canadians live in five Canadian cities. As of 2001, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver and HalifaxHalifax is a Canadian city, the provincial capital and largest population centre in Nova Scotia, and the economic centre of the Atlantic Provinces. In 1995, the city of Halifax was amalgamated with a number of neighbouring authorities to create the Halifa were home to approximately 78.4 percent of all black Canadians.

Although black Canadians have made great contributions to Canadian society, many still face significant challenges. According to the Ethnic Diversity Survey that was released in September 2003, Nearly one-third (32%) of Blacks said that they had experienced some form of discrimination or unfair treatment sometimes or often in the past five years.

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