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This chapter is based on a three-year re-search project that examines the experiences of African women in Alberta, one of the ten Canadian provinces. Although our research targets African women in general, this chapter focuses specifically on a sample of the youth population within this larger group. In contrast to the United States, the majority of Blacks in Canada have immigrated to this country in the twentieth century. Even in the province of Alberta, where a number of Black communities were established in the nineteenth century, most Blacks are either of Caribbean or continental African descent (Okeke et al. 2000). Economic downturns and political unrest across the African continent have encouraged a continuously rising trend of immigration to North America (Mkandawire 1997).