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    Black Nova Scotians (also known as African Nova Scotians and Afro-Nova Scotians) are Black Canadians whose ancestors primarily date back to the Colonial...
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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 Black Canadians of African-American...
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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. In April 2019...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Carrie Best (category Black Nova Scotians)
    first black-owned and published Nova Scotia newspaper. It became an important voice in exposing racism and exploring the lives of Black Nova Scotians. In...
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    Portia White (category Black Nova Scotians)
    recordings of White's live performances. Music portal Canada portal Black Nova Scotians Music of Canada Fanfair, Ron (February 7, 2018). "50 years after...
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  • George Boyd (playwright) (category Black Nova Scotians)
    became the first indigenous African-Nova Scotian to have a play professionally produced at Neptune Theatre, Nova Scotia's premier main stage. Since then...
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    in Canada African Americans in France African Americans in Israel Black Nova Scotians Samaná Americans Haitian emigration Merikins Index of articles related...
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    William A. White (category Black Nova Scotians)
    served in France during the Great War. Black Canadian Canadian Forces Military history of Nova Scotia Black Nova Scotians Cornwallis Street Baptist Church "George...
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  • Calvin Ruck (category Black Nova Scotians)
    1916-1920 : Canada's best kept military secret (ISBN 0-920852-92-0) Black Nova Scotians "Calvin Ruck book details life of human rights activist". CBC News...
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    Robert Stanfield (category Lawyers in Nova Scotia)
    in Nova Scotia, introduced hospital insurance and a provincial sales tax (PST) to fund half of it, prioritized human rights for Black Nova Scotians, and...
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  • Gordon Earle (category Black Nova Scotians)
    1997 are based on the results of its predecessor, the Reform Party. Black Nova Scotians "Canada Votes - South Shore - St. Margaret's Candidate Profiles"...
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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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    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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  • portal Biography portal Sierra Leone portal United States portal Black Nova Scotians List of slaves James W. St G. Walker. "PETERS, THOMAS". Dictionary...
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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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    Royal Ethiopian Regiment (category Black Loyalists)
    in 1780 of tetanus from a bullet wound in his last raid. Black Loyalists Black Nova Scotians African Americans in the Revolutionary War List of British...
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