Lincoln Alexander had more than a dozen business, provincial and national awards, honours, recognition and titles. This day commemorating him is now celebrated each year. He was recognized, among other reasons, as:
One of the first Black men to serve in the Royal Canadian Air Force
The first Black Member of Parliament in the House of Commons
The first Black federal Cabinet Minister, serving as federal Minister of Labour
The first Black Chair of the Worker’s Compensation Board
The 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1985 to 1991
You may also like
Between February 2020 and March 2022, the African Ancestry Project, led by Alice Muthoni Mũrage in partnership with BC Black History Awareness […]
Moses Rowe Smith and family arrived in Victoria in 1858 from London, Ontario. His business interests included a bakery, biscuit factory, warehouse, […]
Many of the pioneers came to the British Colonies beginning in 1858 as young men and women and young families. It was […]
In spring 1968, six Caribbean students at Sir George Williams University filed a complaint against biology professor Perry Anderson, making a case […]