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  2. Black Loyalist - Wikipedia

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    Black Loyalists found the northern climate and frontier conditions in Nova Scotia difficult and were subject to discrimination by other Loyalist settlers, many of them enslavers. In July 1784, Black Loyalists in Shelburne were targeted in the Shelburne Riots, the first recorded race riots in Canadian history. Crown officials granted lesser ...

  3. Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada - Wikipedia

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    The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada is a reserve infantry regiment in 34 Canadian Brigade Group, 2nd Canadian Division, of the Canadian Army.The regiment is located at 2067, rue Bleury (2067, Bleury Street) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and is currently commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel R.M. Unger.

  4. Stephen Blucke - Wikipedia

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    Stephen Blucke or Stephen Bluck (born c. 1752 –after 1796) was a Black Loyalist in the American Revolutionary War and one the commanding officers of the British Loyalist provincial unit, the Black Company of Pioneers. [1] He was one of 3,000 people who left New York for Nova Scotia on British ships.

  5. Birchtown, Nova Scotia - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Nova Scotian Settlers - Wikipedia

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    The gravestone of Lawrence Hartshorne, a Quaker who was the chief assistant of John Clarkson. [1] [2]The Nova Scotian Settlers, or Sierra Leone Settlers (also known as the Nova Scotians or more commonly as the Settlers), were African Americans and Black Canadians of African-American descent who founded the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone and the Colony of Sierra Leone, on March 11, 1792.

  7. James W. St. G. Walker - Wikipedia

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    James W. St.G. Walker FRSC CM (born August 5, 1940) is a Canadian professor of history at the University of Waterloo, and a historian of human rights and racism.. Walker received his PhD from Dalhousie University in 1973. [1]

  8. BLK, An Origin Story - Wikipedia

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    The four episodes explored the initial migrations of Black Loyalist, Black Refugee and Jamaican Maroon communities to Nova Scotia in the 18th and 19th centuries; [3] the history of the Little Burgundy neighbourhood in Montreal; [4] the history of the Hogan's Alley neighbourhood in Vancouver; [5] and the story of John "Daddy" Hall, a free-born ...

  9. Africville - Wikipedia

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    First known as the Campbell Road Settlement, [5] Africville began as a small, poor, self-sufficient rural community of about 50 people during the 19th century.. The earliest colonial settlement of Africville began with the relocation of Black Loyalists, former slaves from the Thirteen Colonies who escaped from rebel masters and were freed by the British in the course of the American ...