n. — Ethnicities
a Canadian of African descent.
Type: 1. Origin — Formed in analogy to black American, the term black Canadian has been in use since the late 1960s. As the data shows (refer to Chart 2 at the entry for African-Canadian), just under 30% of uses today use this term, while about two-thirds prefer the term African(-)Canadian. The term Afro(-)Canadian is used today only in a small minority of cases (under 10%).
Black Canadian is not listed in any of the dictionaries in our set.