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William Peyton Hubbard
William Peyton Hubbard (1842 – April 13, 1935), a City of Toronto alderman from 1894 to 1914, was a popular and influential politician; he was the first politician of African descent elected to office in Canada.
==Early years==
Hubbard was born in a cabin in what were then the outskirts of Toronto, in a rural area called "the bush" near the intersection of what are now Bloor Street and Bathurst Street. His parents were refugee American slaves who had escaped their plantation in Virginia and reached Canada in 1840 via the Underground Railroad.〔()〕 Raised a devout Anglican, Hubbard was trained as a baker at the Toronto Normal School.〔http://www.alternavox.net/736/famous-canadian-scientists-and-inventors-of-african-descent/〕 He invented and patented a successful commercial baker's oven, the Hubbard Portable.〔〔
By his thirties he had married Julia Luckett. After having worked 16 years as a baker, he joined his uncle's horse-drawn livery taxi service.〔 One winter night, he rescued another cab and its occupant, newspaper publisher George Brown, from drowning in the Don River. A grateful Brown hired Hubbard as his driver. They became friends and the publisher later encouraged Hubbard to seek public office.〔("Historicist: Public History and William Peyton Hubbard" ), ''The Torontoist'', February 14, 2009〕 His lifelong friend was Anderson Ruffin Abbott, Canada's first black physician.
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