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    Black Nova Scotians (also known as African Nova Scotians and Afro-Nova Scotians) are an ethnic group consisting of Black Canadians whose ancestors primarily...
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  • Black Nova Scotians. Wayne Adams Yvonne Atwell Wanda Thomas Bernard, Canadian Senator Mayann Francis, first black woman Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia...
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    The Nova Scotian Settlers, or Sierra Leone Settlers (also known as the Nova Scotians or more commonly as the Settlers), were African Americans who founded...
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    African Americans in Canada and their descendants (including Black Nova Scotians). Black Canadians have contributed to many areas of Canadian culture...
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    record number of four Black Nova Scotians were elected MLAs; prior to this election, only five Black MLAs had ever been elected in Nova Scotia. May 30, 2017...
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  • time. African Nova Scotian English is spoken by descendants of Black Nova Scotians, black immigrants from the United States who live in Nova Scotia, Canada...
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    Viola Desmond (category Black Nova Scotians)
    activist and businesswoman of Black Nova Scotian descent. In 1946, she challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, by refusing to...
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    Book of Negroes (category Black Loyalists)
    Revolutionary War became the first settlement of Black Nova Scotians and Black Canadians. Other Black Loyalists were transported to settlements in several...
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  • immigrants and their descendants (including Black Nova Scotians) List of census subdivisions in the Montreal area with Black populations higher than the national...
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    community located in Nova Scotia, Canada within the Halifax Regional Municipality. The community is populated primarily by Black Nova Scotians. North Preston...
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    Cory Bowles (category Black Nova Scotians)
    African-Nova Scotian with roots among Black Loyalists, Maroons and the original French Colonies. Bowles has travelled the globe studying the roots of Black dance...
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    go to Halifax and other Parts of Nova Scotia where there is a fairer Prospect of Employment" (see Black Nova Scotians). Soon the charity focused its goals...
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    Africville was a small community of predominantly African Nova Scotians located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It developed on the southern shore of Bedford...
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    some came via several years in Nova Scotia, another British North American colony and so are known as Black Nova Scotians. All asserted a British identity...
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    Brunswick, notably of those whose ancestors, much like those of Black Nova Scotians, originated from the Colonial United States as slaves or freemen...
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    modern Freetown. These former Black Loyalist soldiers, also known as Black Nova Scotians (because they came from Nova Scotia after leaving North America)...
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    three main groups: Ontario-born Black Canadians, Caribbean immigrants, and Black Nova Scotians. Black Nova Scotians settled largely in Alexandra Park...
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    during the American Revolution Black refugee (War of 1812) Black Nova Scotians History of Nova Scotia Birchtown, Nova Scotia Billy (slave) Cassandra Pybus...
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    Black Loyalists from New York. Birchtown was first settled by Stephen Blucke, who has been referred to as "the true founder of the Afro-Nova Scotian community"...
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  • Ethiopian Regiment (category Black Loyalists)
    He died in 1780 of tetanus from a bullet wound in his last raid. Black Nova Scotians African Americans in the Revolutionary War List of British units...
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  • Sylvia Hamilton (category Black Nova Scotians)
    Based in Nova Scotia, her work explores the lives and experiences of people of African descent. Her special focus is on African Nova Scotians, and especially...
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  • Ava (wrestler) (category American people of Black Nova Scotian descent)
    granddaughter of Ata (née Maivia) and Rocky Johnson, a Samoan and Black Nova Scotian respectively. Through her paternal grandmother, she is a non-blood...
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    Canada Nova Scotia Federation of Labour List of National Historic Sites in Nova Scotia History of Acadia Black Nova Scotians Military history of Nova Scotia...
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    Rocky Johnson (category Black Nova Scotians)
    Nova Scotia, where he was raised, the fourth of five sons of Lillian (née Gay; 1919–1996) and James Henry Bowles (1888–1957). A Black Nova Scotian, he...
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    Eli Goree (category Black Nova Scotians)
    Riverdale, where he plays Munroe "Mad Dog" Moore. Goree grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was raised by a single mother. He began his acting career at age...
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    Africville Apology (category Black Nova Scotians)
    2010 by the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia for the eviction and eventual destruction of Africville, a Black Nova Scotian community. During the 1940s and...
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  • Boston King (category Nova Scotian Settlers)
    published his autobiography in 1798, which was one of only three by Black Nova Scotians and also notable among slave narratives as a work that was trans-Atlantic...
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  • Stan "Chook" Maxwell (category Black Nova Scotians)
    Local Journalism Initiative (6 April 2022). "Black ice: Continuing the tradition of Black hockey in Nova Scotia and P.E.I." Halifax Examiner.{{cite web}}:...
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    raids alienated many sympathetic or neutral Nova Scotians into supporting the British. By the end of the war, Nova Scotia had outfitted numerous privateers...
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  • Custio Clayton (category Black Nova Scotians)
    for two years at the age of 17 to finish high school. The 24-year-old Nova Scotian Olympian Clayton, along with Simon Kean, were the only two Canadian male...
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