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While most Black people who arrived in Nova Scotia during the American Revolution were free, others were not. [73] Enslaved Black peoples also arrived in Nova Scotia as the property of White American Loyalists. [74] In 1772, prior to the American Revolution, Britain outlawed the slave trade in the British Isles followed by the Knight v.
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.
In 1993, Liberal Wayne Adams became the first black person elected to the Nova Scotia legislation and the first black Nova Scotia cabinet minister. [41] In the 1993 election, Jean Augustine was elected to the House of Commons as a Liberal, becoming the first female black MPs. [41]
Nova Scotia: September 7, 1990: November 16, 2013: Conservative [130] Black Canadian: Calvin Ruck (1925–2004) Nova Scotia: June 11, 1998: September 4, 2000: Liberal [131] Black Canadian: Vivienne Poy 利德蕙 (born 1941) Ontario: September 17, 1998: September 17, 2012: Liberal [132] Chinese-Canadian (Cantonese) First Chinese Canadian ...
North Preston is a community located in Nova Scotia, Canada within the Halifax Regional Municipality. [2] [3] The community is populated primarily by Black Nova Scotians. North Preston is the largest Black community in Nova Scotia by population, and has the highest concentration of African Canadians in Canada. [4]
Africville was a small community of predominantly African Nova Scotians located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It developed on the southern shore of Bedford Basin and existed from the early 1800s to the 1960s. From 1970 to the present, a protest has occupied space on the grounds.
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Birchtown is a community and National Historic Site in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located near Shelburne in the Municipal District of Shelburne County. [2] Founded in 1783, the village was the largest settlement of Black Loyalists and the largest free settlement of ethnic Africans in North America in the eighteenth century.