Rose Fortune Monument
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
Rose Fortune was a successful business woman and Canada’s first female police woman.
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Belleisle Creek Birthplace of Canada’s First Black Lawyer: A. B. Walker
New Brunswick
Black lawyer and intellectual Abraham Beverley Walker was born here in 1851.
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The Van Buskirks, Loyalist nomads
Aylesford, Nova Scotia
The typical loyalist experience of roaming the lands looking to settle down.
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Old Holy Trinity Church, Charles Hill and exhuming Black Loyalist history
Middleton, Nova Scotia
Tombstones reveal a number of Black families tied to the area.
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Lucy Mitchell vs. Annapolis Country Poor Farm Cemetery, Bridgetown, N.S.
Bridgetown, Nova Scotia
Black, female and poor in the only segregated poor house in Nova Scotia
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Encounter at Kwacha House
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Historic interracial gathering place of Black intellectuals.
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The Jordantown Acaciaville Conway Betterment Association
Acaciaville, Nova Scotia
The face of equity after centuries of discrimination
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George Braxton: Pioneer Black Chef
St. Andrews, New Brunswick
This bar and restaurant is named after early Black chef George Braxton.
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Gibson Woods United Baptist Church
Centreville, Nova Scotia
A place of worship saved by community living a second life.
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Sam Langford and the Weymouth Black settlements
Weymouth, Nova Scotia
Weymouth Falls produced Sam Langford, perhaps Canada’s greatest boxer.
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