I must be bored

So I did a quick search for Toronto Black History stuff:

http://www.blackhistorysociety.ca/Braithwaite_Public.htm

"Born on October 23, 1923 to West Indian parents in Toronto, in 1963, he became the first Black Canadian to be elected to a provincial legislature in Canada."

http://www.blackhistorysociety.ca/KevinJunor.pdf

Has a bunch of speaking engagements this month. Torontonian. More but I can't cut and paste and I'm lazy.

http://www.blackhistorysociety.ca/

The above link is where I found all the info. Also had this:

"The Necropolis Cemetery is located in Cabbagetown, downtown Toronto. It is the final resting place of Lucie and Thornton Blackburn. They were former slaves from Kentucky who escaped to Canada via the Underground Railroad. They are credited for setting up the first taxi service in Toronto named The City. Also buried at Necropolis is Anderson Ruffin Abbot, the first Canadian-born black surgeon. So is Corporal Ainsworth Dyer, whose life was cut short by American pilots during a so called "friendly fire" incident in Afghanistan on April 18, 2002 "

Other links with info:

http://www.tgmag.ca/magic/mt40.html
http://billgenova.tripod.com/genovatours/id98.html (this is a black history tour in TO)
http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~gpieters/blklinks.html
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2006-02-23/news_story.php

Obviously some of these will need backing but they might be a good start.