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The first may not always be the last As Canada celebrates Black History Month, it’s important to ask who was the first black person in Canada, a country that has now emerged as the world’s immigration capital. The first Black person thought to have set foot on Canadian soil was Mathieu Da Costa, a free man who was hired by Europeans to act as a translator.He arrived in Canada around 1608, probably in the company of Pierre Dugua de Mons and Samuel de Champlain. However, the first Black person known to have lived and died in Canada was Olivier Le Jene,...