National Historic Sites

The National Historic Sites program designates people, sites and events of nationally historic significance throughout Canada. The program is administered by Parks Canada. Explore the list of persons, places and topics related to Black history.

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People

1987

• Sam Langford

1994

• Mary Ann Shadd

1995

• Josiah Henson
• Portia White

1999

• Thornton and Lucie Blackburn

2002

• Mary and Henry Bibb

2005

• Harriet Tubman
• Reverend William King
• Richard Preston

2008

• William Neilson Hall
• Marie Marguerite Rose

2009

• Harry Winston Jerome

2011

• Kathleen Livingstone
• Mifflin Wistar Gibbs

2018

• Rose Fortune
• Viola Desmond

2022

• Thomas Peters

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Events

1925

• Fugitive Slave Movement
• Underground Railroad

1992

• No. 2 Construction Battalion, C.E.F.
• Upper Canadian Act of 1793 Against Slavery

1994

• Black Loyalist Experience National Historic Event
• Black Railway Porters and their Union Activity

1997

• Black Pioneers in British Columbia

2004

• Abolition Movement in British North America National Historic Event

2007

• Black Pioneer Immigration to Alberta and Saskatchewan

2016

• Black Militia Units in Upper Canada 1812–1850

2018

• The Universal Negro Improvement Association in Canada

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Sites

• Africville National Historic Site of Canada
• Amherstburg First Baptist Church National Historic Site of Canada
• Buxton Settlement National Historic Site of Canada
• George Brown House National Historic Site of Canada
• Griffin House National Historic Site of Canada
• Nazrey African Methodist Episcopal Church National Historic Site of Canada
• Oro African Methodist Episcopal Church National Historic Site of Canada
• Osgoode Hall National Historic Site of Canada
• R. Nathaniel Dett British Methodist Episcopal Church National Historic Site of Canada
• St. Lawrence Hall National Historic Site of Canada
• Salem Chapel, British Methodist Episcopal Church National Historic Site of Canada
• Sandwich First Baptist Church National Historic Site of Canada