Are my grandchildren eligible for Barbadian citizenship?
At the moment children with at least one parent who was born in Barbados are entitled to Barbadian citizenship by descent. Grand children and great grandchildren are not eligible.
Patrick Husbands
Patrick Husbands (born May 22, 1973) is a Barbadian jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. He began his riding career in Barbados where he turned professional before emigrating to Toronto, Ontario in 1994. In 1990 he became the youngest jockey to win the prestigious Barbados Gold Cup at just 16 years, 9 months. Racing out of […]
Harold Brathwaite
Harold McDonald Brathwaite (June 1, 1940 – May 31, 2020) was a Barbadian-Canadian educator and school administrator. Brathwaite was born in Saint Michael, Barbados, where he was educated at St Giles’ Primary School, Combermere School, and Harrison College and the University of the West Indies. In 2006, Brathwaite was awarded the Order of Ontario “for […]
Remittances
Barbadians residing in Canada remit approximately between BDS$25 -BDS $30 million dollars to Barbados annually.
New citizenship recognition ceremony
The Barbados Consulate at Toronto holds an annual citizenship recognition ceremony for persons residing in Canada who acquired Barbados citizenship during the preceding year. The event is held as part of the Independence flag raising ceremony. It is meant to symbolically welcome new citizens into the Barbadian community in Canada.
Barbadian Alan Emtage
Barbadian Alan Emtage born November is a computer scientist who conceived and implemented the first version of Archie, a pre-Web Internet search engine for locating material in public FTP archives. It is widely considered the world’s first Internet search engine. Emtage was born in Barbados and attended high school at Harrison College from 1975 to […]
West Indies cricket tour to Canada
The West Indies Cricket Team was formed in 1884 and made its first overseas tour just two years later – to Canada and the United States. This almost forgotten early tour that marked the beginning of the West Indian international journey. Despite the huge enthusiasm amongst the black community for playing cricket, there were no […]
Sally Ann Cools
Anne Clare Cools became the first Black Canadian to be named to the Senate in 1984. She served as a Liberal, Conservative and independent senator for more than 30 years, and was known as the Dean of the Senate for her knowledge of parliamentary history and procedure. Cools was born on 12 August 1943 in […]
West Indies Domestic Scheme
In July 2020, the West Indian Domestic Scheme was designated of national historic significance by the Government of Canada. The West Indian Domestic Scheme originated as an immigration program for Caribbean women between 1955 and 1967. Through the scheme, approximately 3,000 Caribbean women emigrated to Canada to work as domestic workers. The first hundred women […]
Donald Moore
Donald Moore was born in Lodge Hill, St. Michael Barbados. His father, Charles Alexander Moore was a cabinetmaker, in addition to being a member of the Barbados Harbour Police Force. Donald Moore was trained as a tailor in his native Barbados. At the age of 21, Moore emigrated first to New York and then to […]