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Leonard Braithwaite: First Black Elected to a Canadian Provincial Legislature

Lawyer Leonard Braithwaite was the first Black elected to a Canadian provincial legislature. He served as a Liberal member of the Ontario Provincial Legislature from 1963 until 1975. Braithwaite was raised in the Kensington Market area of Toronto during the Depression and served in the RCAF in the Second World War. He attended the University […]

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