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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 ...
While most Black people who arrived in Nova Scotia during the American Revolution were free, others were not. [74] Enslaved Black peoples also arrived in Nova Scotia as the property of White American Loyalists. [75] In 1772, prior to the American Revolution, Britain outlawed the slave trade in the British Isles followed by the Knight v.
William Pearly Oliver OC CM (February 11, 1912 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia – May 26, 1989 in Lucasville) worked at the Cornwallis Street Baptist Church for twenty-five years (1937–1962) and was instrumental in developing the four leading organizations to support Black Nova Scotians in the 20th century: Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1945), the Nova Scotia ...
North Preston has a high home-ownership rate and a stable population, and has resisted gentrification through urban sprawl which has occurred in other Black Nova Scotian settlements. At $33,233, North Preston has a higher average income compared with the average of $31,795 for Nova Scotia. [ 9 ]
Wilkinson joined some 3,000 other Black Loyalists in on L'Abondance to Halifax in Nova Scotia; [6] [9] he is listed with them in the Book of Negroes. [1] The largest Black Loyalist settlement in Nova Scotia was established in Birchtown, but the refugees found the climate and conditions harsh, and the Crown was slow to grant them land. [6]
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.
As a result, 1,196 Black settlers in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia left for Sierra Leone, following planning from Thomas Peters. [11] An additional wave of 371 African-American refugees arrived in 1815, following the War of 1812. [10] In the early 1800s, one of Canada's first Black settlements, Elm Hill, was founded by Black loyalists. [12]
Johnston was born in Halifax on March 12, 1876. [1] He was the eldest of the five sons of William Johnston, a shoemaker, and Elizabeth Ann Thomas. His maternal grandparents were Reverend James Thomas, a white man from Wales who headed the African Baptist Association from 1861 to 1879, and Hannah Saunders, an African Nova Scotian woman.