The story of Canada’s Black heritage is filled with important events and amazing people who helped shape the country’s history and culture – people like Rose Fortune, North America’s first policewoman; Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railway’s legendary ‘conductor’; newspaper editor Mary Ann Shadd; Elijah McCoy, the brilliant inventor who was ‘the real McCoy’; Alberta cowboy John Ware; and Fergie Jenkins, the first Canadian elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

• ISBN: 9781550051377
• Author: Robert Livesey
• 90 pages
• Ages: 8-12