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Albert Jackson.
Canadian mail crrier, first Black Canadian mail carrier in Toronto
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About Albert Jackson
Albert Calvin Jackson was the first Black Canadian mail carrier in Toronto. Jackson faced discrimination when he started his position in 1882 and was reassigned as mail porter. When the decision was reversed by Prime Minister John A. Macdonald even though it cost him votes in the 1882 Canadian federal election, Jackson continued his mail carrier career from 1882 until his 1918 death. Jackson was posthumously honoured with a plaque by Heritage Toronto in 2017 and a stamp by Canada Post in 2019.
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- mail carrier
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1857
- Died
- January 14, 1918