Black Canadians is a designation used for people of Black African descent, who are citizens or permanent residents of Canada. The term specifically refers to Canadians with Sub-Saharan African ancestry. The majority of Black Canadians are Caribbean Canadians, who have roots or origins in the Anglophone Caribbean and Haiti.The term African Canadian is also used by Black Canadians, many of whom trace their heritage to the first slaves brought by British and French colonists to the mainland of North America. A minority of the population are of recent African origin. Many Canadians identify as Black even though they may have multi-ethnic ancestries.

African Canadians and other Canadians often draw a distinction between those of Afro-Caribbean ancestry and those of other African roots. One of the most prominent tensions involves the terms used to label and identify the Black community. Unlike in the United States, where African American is the most widely accepted term, the term "Black Canadian" is still accepted in the Canadian context, as many Blacks of Caribbean origin in Canada reject the term African Canadian as an elision of the uniquely Caribbean aspects of their heritage. The vast majority of Black-targeted cultural and social institutions in Canada serve both the Caribbean Canadian and African Canadian communities equally.

Black Canadians form the third largest visible minority group in Canada, after South Asian and Chinese people.

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