Question 1 The largest number of Black immigrants to Canada came as runaways from American slavery via the Underground Railroad during the late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. True or False Question 2 Upper Canada was the first of the British colonies to move to abolish slavery. True or False Question 3 Assimilation is the process of allowing minorities to retain parts of their cultural identity while becoming part of the larger Canadian society. True or False Question 4 Ethnocentrism is the belief in the importance and equality of all cultures. True or False Question 5 Racism is a prejudice based on the belief in the superiority of one's own ethnicity over that of another. True or False Top of Page