Afro-Canadian

Although very few came directly from the African continent, the term Afro-canadian has become very popular to designate people of African descent regardless of their place of birth.

The first people arriving in Canada were slave 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.

Today, the Afro-Canadians represent approximately 2% of the canadian population.

See also: History of Africa, African American, British Afro-Caribbean community