Athlete - - -

• CC – Donovan Bailey [sprinter]
• BC – Wilfred 'Boomer' Harding [Baseball]
• BC –Ferguson (Fergie) Arthur Jenkins
• BC – Sam Langford – [boxer]
• BC – Willie O'Ree – [former professional ice hockey player]
• C – Bruny Surin [track and field]

Clergyman - - -

• AC – Josiah Henson – [laborer and clergyman] 
• ∅ – Joseph Leonard – [Anglican lay preacher and school teacher]
• AA – John Marrant 

Entertainers - - -

• BC – Oluniké Adeliyi – [Actress]
• C – Philip Akin – [Actor]
• BC – Archie Alleyne – [Drummer]
• BC – Shamier Anderson – [Actor]
• BC – B-Kool – [Rapper]
• BC – Portia White – [Opera singer]

Entrepreneurs - - -

• AA –Wilson Ruffin Abbott
• BC– Viola Davis Desmond
• AA – Mifflin Wistar Gibbs [successful businessman]
• C –Michael Lee-Chin
•  AA –  James Mink [respected millionaire businessman]
• A – Marie Marguerite Rose

First - - -

• BC – Anderson Ruffin Abbott – [Doctor of Medicine]
• BC – Wayne Adams [member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly and cabinet minister]
• BC/C – Lincoln M. Alexander – [Many Political Firsts]
• AA – Thornton and Lucy Blackburn – [Toronto's first cab company] - A | B | C
• AA – Albert Jackson – [first Black letter carrier]
• C – Robert Sutherland – [Lawyer]
• BC /SA – Juanita Westmoreland-Traore – [Judge]

Held Enslaved - - -

• A – Marie-Joseph Angélique – [charged with arson after a fire leveled Montréal’s merchants' quarter]
• BC – Mary Mink

Interpreter  - - -

• A – Mathieu Da Costa [the first Black known to have visited Canada]

Inventor - - -

• BC /A – Elijah J. McCoy – [Inventor and Engineer]

Maritime - - -

• BC – William Hall – [first black person to receive the Victoria Cross]

Military - - -

• C – Stephen Blucke – [Black Loyalist]
• AA – Colonel Tye – [Black Loyalist]
• AA – David George – [Black Loyalist]
• BC – Jeremiah Jones – [World War I]

Politics - - -

• BC – Lincoln Alexander  [former lieutenant governor of Ontario]
• C – Rosemary Brown – [Canadian politician who was born in Jamaica]
• C – Anne Cools [First black person to become a Canadian senator. Born in Barbados]
• C – Michaëlle Jean – [former broadcaster and former Governor General of Canada]
• BC – William Peyton Hubbard [politician, inventor, baker, coachman]
• BC – Donald Oliver [Canadian lawyer, developer and politician]

Publisher - - -

• BC  – Carrie Best [ writer, publisher and activist]
• AC – Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Settlers - - - 

• C – Stephen Blucke – [Black Loyalist]
• ∅ – Thomas Brownspriggs – [leader of the blacks who settled at Tracadie]
• AA – Jupiter and Venus Farmer 
• AA – Rose Fortune – [Successful Businesswoman ]
• A – Thomas Peters – [Soldier, Politician, Colonizer]
• AA – Mary Postell 
• AA – John Ware - [Cowboy and rancher]

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