Thank you for visiting Black Owned TO’s Black History Month Market. Further explore products and services from their featured businesses below.

Featured Stores

STC has reached out, connected and engaged with local entrepreneurs to introduce three Black-owned, local businesses to our shopping centre. In celebration of Black History Month, we’re honoured to pay tribute to the entrepreneurial journeys of our local business owners below.

Showcasing vendors from across Canada and in a range of categories, you’ll find delightful home goods, the best beauty and grooming products, amazing fashion, and mouth-watering food. All from Black-owned brands, all under one roof.

We believe that everyone should have access to great clothing, in the styles that they love!  Our mission is to source products through affordable and sustainable means. While  providing  authentic high-quality vintage and streetwear apparel to our customers at a fair price.

Flaunt chic styles with fashion from Shop20 INC.. With unbeatable prices, Shop20 INC. ensures that every customer can enjoy a beautiful wardrobe at an affordable cost.

Randell Adjei is an author, inspirational speaker, arts educator and community leader who uses the spoken word to empower and transform through what he calls – Edutainment. He is founder of the long-running youth enabling organization, R.I.S.E (Reaching Intelligent Souls Everywhere.)

Ronald Nelson is a visionary and leader who has played a critical role in popularizing, hip hop, reggae and dancehall music in Canada. He brought Canada’s first major rap concert featuring Run DMC and others, and with proceeds from that show built Canada’s first hip hop recording studio in the basement of his Scarborough home.

Scarborough-born CEO Shawn Allen has transformed the mortgage industry in a short time with his company, Matrix Mortgage Global. A tremendous advocate for the Scarborough community, he also operates the Matrix Mortgage Cares Foundation and is active director of the Scarborough Business Association.

Scarborough born rapper and record producer, Kardinal Offishall has claimed the international music stage and collaborated with the best out there including Rihanna, Lady Gaga and of course Dangerous w/Akon that peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, making him the first rapper in Canadian history to do so.

Dwayne Morgan is a two-time Canadian National Poetry Slam Champion. In 1994, he founded Up From The Roots entertainment while he was still a student in high school, to promote the positive artistic contributions of African Canadian and urban influenced artists.

Jay C. Hope became the highest-ranking black police officer in Canadian history, when he was promoted to Deputy Chief of Ontario Provincial Police in 2004 and only the second black Deputy Minister of Correctional Services when appointed by Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty in 2008. In 2001, he was awarded the African-Canadian Achievement Award and the Amethyst Award, the highest honour given to civil servants.

A native of Scarborough, Deborah Cox is a multiple Juno-winning Rhythm & Blues vocalist and actress. Cox was also discovered shortly after graduating from high school by Arista Records president Clive Davis, who recruited some of the top names in R & B to provide her with material for her 1995 debut including Babyface, Dallas Austin, and Keith Crouch.

With 12 seasons under his belt in the NBA, Jamaal Magloire is the second Canadian All-Star in NBA history. In 2005, he started the Jamaal Magloire Basketball Association (JAMBA), a non-profit organization affiliated with the Ontario Basketball Association.

As Canada’s foremost and best selling Hip Hop artist in Canadian history, Maestro Fresh Wes has been pivotal in changing the climate for black music in Canada forever. His influence and popularity precipitated the implementation of a Rap category at the Canadian Music Awards in 1991.