Central Service Centres Branch Black History Month Trivia

In 1967, ten Torontonians founded what popular cultural festival?

Michaëlle Jean, the first Black Governor General of Canada, was born in which country?

Jackie Shane was a pioneering transgender performer who became a prominent figure in which music genre in Toronto?

Who appears on the Canadian ten dollar bill?

During the Great Depression, the Coloured All-Stars were an all-Black organized baseball team from which town?

Oscar Peterson is still considered one of the world’s greatest:

In 2012, Devon Clunis became the first Black Canadian appointed as a Chief of Police in which city?

Rosemary Brown, born in Jamaica, became the first Black woman to run for this in 1975:

Where did the first shipload of enslaved Africans arrive in British North America (BNA)?

The greatest track star in Canadian history, with gold medals in the 100-metre sprint and 4 by 100 relay, was:

What was the name of Canada’s first and only all-Black battalion?

When was enslavement abolished in Canada? 

What was the name of Henry Bibb’s newspaper, the first Black newspaper in Canada?

In 2010, the mayor of Halifax apologized for the destruction of what historic Black community in the 1960s?

Taken from West Africa as a teenager and sold into slavery, Pierpoint regained his freedom during?