Black Canadians
（重定向自African Canadian）
![Mathieu de Costa, the first recorded free black person to arrive in Canada.](/Images/godic/202412/20/Mathieu_da_costa3546.jpg")
![Anderson Ruffin Abbott, the first Black Canadian to be a licensed physician, participated in the American Civil War and attended the deathbed of Abraham Lincoln.](/Images/godic/202412/20/Anderson-Ruffin-Abbott3546.jpg")
![Monument in Pictou, Nova Scotia dedicated to abolitionist James Drummond MacGregor, who helped free Black Nova Scotian slaves](/Images/godic/202412/20/RevJamesMacgregorMonumentPictouNovaScotia3546.jpg")
![Black Canadians pose with Ontario Premier Ernest Charles Drury at Queen's Park, 1920](/Images/godic/202412/20/Black_Canadians_at_Queens_Park3546.jpg")
Black Canadian is a designation used for people of Black African descent, who are citizens or permanent residents of Canada. The majority of Black Canadians are of Caribbean origin, though the population also consists of African American immigrants and their descendants (including Black Nova Scotians), as well as many African immigrants.