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- Founded in 1793 as the town of York and renamed and incorporated as the city of Toronto in 1834, Toronto has been a home to Black communities since the 1600s.
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Toronto was founded as the Town of York and capital of Upper Canada in 1793 after the Mississaugas sold the land to the British in the Toronto Purchase. [1] For over 12,000 years, Indigenous People have lived in the Toronto area.
In 1979, Toronto became the first municipality in Canada to proclaim Black History Month through the efforts of many individuals and organizations such as the Ontario Black History Society.
Toronto has had an African Canadian population from its early days as a settlement. Its inhabitants included enslaved women, men, and children, Black Loyalists, and African Americans escaping enslavement in the United States.
Feb 1, 2021 · February 2021 marks the 25th year since Black History Month was first celebrated nationally; however, Toronto’s celebrations go back further than that. Toronto became the first municipality in Canada to proclaim Black History Month in 1979.
In 1840, Toronto’s Anglican archbishop John Strachan commissioned a young Black man and former student, Peter Gallego, to conduct a census of Toronto’s Black residents; he counted 525. 20 Within 15 years, that number had almost doubled, with over half of city’s 973 Black residents living in St. John’s Ward. 21 (With a population of ...
In 1615 Étienne Brûlé (an associate of Samuel de Champlain, the founder of Quebec city) visited the Toronto region, which was under the control of the Huron, although it is questionable whether he actually traveled the Toronto Passage to the location of present-day Toronto itself.
Feb 5, 2007 · In 1851, a famous and symbolic meeting, an abolitionist convention, took place at St. Lawrence Hall. Abolitionists from Canada, Britain and the United States all converged in the city because Toronto was considered a safe haven.
