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Fil Fraser was famous for a lot of different things, most notably his achievements in radio and film. He was the first Black Canadian to become a radio broadcaster. He continued broadcasting and other radio-related activities for many years,…

This book is one of three that Fil Fraser wrote. His career extended beyond that of radio and film. His books are about the history of Alberta or about the history of Black Canadians. This book specifically talks about the impact of Black Canadians…

This chair that Fil Fraser usually used while directing movies is a testament to his successful career in film. Although his most impressive achievement may be seen as becoming the first Black Broadcaster, after moving to the Canadian Prairies, Fil…

The Canadian government recognized Jackie Washington’s talent and contributions to Canadian music culture and inducted him into the Canadian Jazz and Blues Hall of Fame in 2002. Washington was adamant to preserve his family's heritage and cultural…

This image contains two pie charts modelling the composition (from which regions they emigrate) of total Immigration amounts into Canada (the first being until 1980 and the second being the total in 1990) I created using data from Statistics Canada…

There were no documented Black owned jazz clubs in Toronto from 1920 to 1980 and musicians had limited places to play due to segregated clubs. The Rex was one of those non-segregated clubs but as mentioned, maintained a mainly white audience. Today,…

This image contains two pie charts I created using data from Statistics Canada and the 1986 Canadian Census, the first of which shows the ethnic distribution (along the lines of those with Chinese Ancestry, those with African Ancestry, and the rest…

This image is a graphical representation I created of formal WW1 and WW2 military participation from Chinese and African-descended Canadians, using data collected by J.L. Granastein and Michael O’Hagan. Here, I decided to model this data using the…

This is a graph I created based on the works of Dudley Poston (Et Al.) in the article, “The Global Distribution of the Overseas Chinese Around 1990”, as well as Walton Look Lai and Chee-Beng Tan in the book, The Chinese in Latin America and the…