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Alexander was born on January 21, 1922, in a row house on Draper Street [2] near Front Street and Spadina Avenue in Toronto, Ontario. [3] He was the eldest son of Mae Rose (née Royale), who immigrated from Jamaica, and Lincoln McCauley Alexander Sr., a carpenter by trade [4] who worked as a porter on the Canadian Pacific Railway, who had come to Canada from St. Vincent and the Grenadines. [5]
Lincoln Alexander (1922–2012) Hamilton West: June 25, 1968: September 7, 1980: Conservative [3] Black Canadian (Jamaican/Vicentian) First Black Canadian elected to Canadian Parliament Pierre de Bané بيير دي باين (1938–2019) Matapédia—Matane: June 25, 1968: June 28, 1984: Liberal [4] Lebanese-Canadian
Lincoln Alexander MP for Hamilton West: 4 June 1979: 2 March 1980: 0 years, 271 days Minister of Labour (1979–1980) Lincoln Alexander was Canada's first black Cabinet Minister. He later served as Ontario's first black Lieutenant Governor between 1985 and 1991. [19]
The Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway, nicknamed The Linc, is a municipal expressway in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, which connects Highway 403 with the Red Hill Valley Parkway, which continues north to the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW). Collectively, the two expressways form a southern and eastern bypass of Hamilton.
The Order of Ontario (French: Ordre de l'Ontario) is the most prestigious official honour in the Canadian province of Ontario. [1] Instituted in 1986 by Lieutenant Governor Lincoln Alexander, [2] on the advice of the Cabinet under Premier David Peterson, the civilian order is administered by the Lieutenant Governor-in-Council and is intended to honour current or former Ontario residents for ...
Rt. Hon Lincoln Alexander, first African-Canadian MP in Canada and the first African-Canadian Lt. Governor of Ontario. Earliest Black Canadians elected in Canada: Wilson Ruffin Abbott, Elected to Toronto city council in 1840. Abraham D. Shadd, Councillor of Raleigh Township (from 1858)
Lincoln Alexander, first Black Member of Parliament in Canada, former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario; Toya Alexis, R&B/pop singer and Canadian Idol season 1 finalist; Aisha Alfa, actress and comedian; Ismaila Alfa, radio host; Thom Allison, actor; Jean Alfred, first Black Canadian member of the National Assembly of Quebec; Lillian Allen, dub poet
There have been two Black (Lincoln Alexander and Mayann E. Francis) and several Indigenous lieutenant governors. Norman Kwong, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta from 2005 to 2010, was Chinese-Canadian and David Lam, the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia from 1988 to 1995, was Hong Kong-Canadian.