The O’Ree and Lawrence Families
Fredericton, New Brunswick
Childhood home of Willie O’Ree
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Black Loyalist Heritage Centre
Shelburne, Nova Scotia
Home of the Black Loyalists, the largest free Black settlement in the 1780s.
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Maroon Hill
Middle Sackville, Nova Scotia
Not all Maroons chose to settle in Preston or work as labour in Halifax.
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Kings College (and the slave economy)
Windsor, Nova Scotia
Where the ideals of the enlightenment meet the barbarity of the slave economy.
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Monument to William Hall V.C.
Hantsport, Nova Scotia
The final resting place of William Hall V.C., first Black awardee of the Victoria Cross.
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Emmanuel Baptist Church
Upper Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia
Early Black Refugee Church built in Hammonds Plains by Rev. John Burton in 1822.
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Saint Thomas Baptist Church
North Preston, Nova Scotia
Canada’s Largest Black Community
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Government House and the Maroons
Halifax, Nova Scotia
One of two sites constructed by the Jamaican Maroons.
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Uniacke Square
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Vibrant community settled by those displaced by the razing of Africville.
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The Gordon House
Prince William, New Brunswick
The Gordon house is one of several structures on the King’s Landing site to depict Blacks.
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