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African-Canadian

noun

  1. a Canadian of African descent
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. of or relating to Canadians of African descent
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

Lemay was born into hardship in Toronto, with roots in African-Canadian culture and among the Mi’kmaq peoples of Canada’s East Coast.

Russell Martin, one of the few black major league catchers in recent years, is an African-Canadian from Montreal.

Slavery’s importance in forging the fortunes of the Lee family has gained greater attention through the work of Elise Harding-Davis, 70, a prominent African-Canadian historian who says that she, too, is a relative of Lee’s.

Mr. Douglas was born in Vancouver — his father was a neurologist, and his mother an administrator — and as an African-Canadian in a city with a tiny black population, he came to an early awareness of the complex and sometimes insidious interplay of race, culture and power.

But I also want to see what it’s like to be a young Native person, African-American, African-Canadian.

From Time

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