BHM Trivia

When was slavery abolished in Canada?

• 1834

• 1823

• 1854

It is a small town on the coast of Canada. It was founded in 1761 and was home to enslaved Africans.

• Africville

• Halifax

• Africanville

In 1967, ten Torontonians, all with a common Caribbean heritage, founded what popular cultural festival?

• Nuit Blanche

• Toronto Culture Day

• Caribana

Who was Canada’s first Black Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM) and first Black high commissioner to be appointed in the public service? What year did he or she become the first Assistant Deputy Minister and in what department?

• James Thomas, 1948, Department of Procurement and Supply Services

• James Calbert Best, 1949, Department of Employment and Immigration

• Louisa Adams, 1970, Department of Manpower and Immigration

How many ethnic origins or ancestries do we have in Canada as of 2016?

• 140+

• 250+

• 150+

What was the name of Henry Bibb’s newspaper, the first Black newspaper in Canada, that reported on the Underground Railroad and colonization schemes?

• The Voice of the Fugitive

• The Railway Times

• The Anti-Slavery Sun

Who is Adeline Bird?

• An Afro-Anishinaabe author, filmmaker and broadcaster

• An African American author, filmmaker and broadcaster

• An Afro-Canadian author, filmmaker and broadcaster

Who was the first black woman elected to Parliament in 1993, serving as a Liberal MP for the riding of Etobicoke-Lakeshore in Ontario?

• August Jean

• Jean Augustine

• Anne Cole

Which year did the UN General Assembly adopt resolution 68/237, proclaiming 2015–2024 to be the International Decade for People of African Descent, with the theme “People of African Descent: Recognition, Justice, and Development”?

• 2010

• 2013

• 2012

Who invented and patented a commercial baker’s oven named after his name and contributed to establishing the Toronto Hydro-Electric System?

• Peyton Hubbard

• William Peyton Hubbard

• Nancy Coleman