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Numerous Black Nova Scotians fought in the American Civil War in the effort to end slavery. Perhaps the most well known Nova Scotians to fight in the war effort are Joseph B. Noil and Benjamin Jackson. Three Black Nova Scotians served in the famous 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry: Hammel Gilyer, Samuel Hazzard, and Thomas Page. [104]
Corrine Sparks, first African Nova Scotian to be appointed to the judiciary and first African Canadian woman to serve on the bench. Edith Hester McDonald-Brown, considered first documented Black female painter in Canadian art history. John Paris Jr., the first Black person to coach a pro hockey team.
The gravestone of Lawrence Hartshorne, a Quaker who was the chief assistant of John Clarkson. [1]The Nova Scotian Settlers, or Sierra Leone Settlers (also known as the Nova Scotians or more commonly as the Settlers), were African Americans and African Nova Scotians or Black Canadians of African-American descent who founded the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone and the Colony of Sierra Leone ...
A home for Black orphans in Nova Scotia was proposed by James Robinson Johnston in 1908. [5] Following the untimely death of Johnston on March 3, 1915, Kinney took over as the black community's lay minister and lead advocate for building the home.
The community has become an important symbol of Black Canadian identity, as an example of the "urban renewal" trend of the 1960s that razed similarly racialized neighbourhoods across Canada, and the struggle against racism. Africville was founded by Black Nova Scotians from a variety of origins.
This is a category for Black Nova Scotians, those of full Black Nova Scotian ancestry or of partial ancestry who self-identify themselves as Black Nova Scotian. For people of partial ancestry whose self-identity is not verifiable see Category:People of Black Nova Scotian descent. Canada portal; United States portal
The Book of Negroes is a document created by Brigadier General Samuel Birch, under the direction of Sir Guy Carleton, that records names and descriptions of 3,000 Black Loyalists, enslaved Africans who escaped to the British lines during the American Revolution and were evacuated to points in Nova Scotia as free people of colour.
William Edward Hall was born at Horton, Nova Scotia, in 1827 [note 2] as the son of Jacob and Lucy Hall, who had escaped American slave owners in Maryland during the War of 1812 and were brought to freedom in Nova Scotia by the British Royal Navy as part of the Black Refugee movement. [2]