African Nova Scotian: Dark Cultural Pump For Nova Scotia

BLACK CULTURAL CENTRE FOR NOVA SCOTIA -- If y'all notice yourself inwards Nova Scotia, brand certain y'all catch the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia. In December, the Black Cultural Centre hosts its Annual Christmas Concert.

• Location: 10 Cherrybrook Road, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
• Phone: (902) 434-6223 or (800) 465-0767
• Fax: (902) 465-0767
• Website: bccns.com
• Hours of Operation: Open year-around: Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - three p.m., June-September
• Admission: Adults $6, seniors & students $4, household unit of measurement $20.

Photo: Portrait of a Nova Scotian of African descent attributed 
to Lady Falkland, 1845. Source: Library as well as Archives Canada

The Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia late completed its 2011 Museum Renovation Initiative. Located inwards the oldest Black community inwards the Halifx underground area, the oculus includes demo rooms, auditorium, library, picnic surface area as well as a gift shop. The center's staff equally good offers motorbus tours of the local history of blacks inwards Nova Scotia, dating dorsum to the 1600s. Programs highlight themes related to community life, religious life, military machine service as well as migration.

From Nova Scotia, Canada to Sierra Leone, Africa

In add-on to the Black Cultural Centre's resources, the local regime has equally good digitized direct records of African short town patterns inwards Nova Scotia as well as made them available through a searchable online archive.

The digitized documents available from the Nova Scotia regime were originally assembled past times the belatedly Records Commission, T.B. Akins, to a greater extent than or less the subject "Refugee Negroes". Spanning from 1791-1839, the earliest documents relate to the emigration of 1200 gratis Africans inwards the eastern share of Canada to Sierra Leone. The grouping of Africans who left Nova Scotia originally immigrated afterwards the American Revolutionary War, inwards 1783, equally business office of the British Loyalist migration.

The documents available from these regime archives are bully for African diaspora genealogist because they include the private names of African refugees from the rider lists of British ships landing at Beechville, Hammonds Plains, Preston as well as other locations. Documents equally good include correspondence as well as petitions to the regime past times white Nova Scotian citizens expressing draw organisation for the hard atmospheric condition faced past times the African refugees.

Black Nova Scotian Refugees from the War of 1812

The Canadian digital archives equally good include data regarding the short town of 2000 African refugees inwards Nova Scotia from September 1813 to August 1815. This migration was a right away trial of the British military's War of 1812 announcement that offered Americans who deserted to the British side gratis short town inwards whatever of the British colonies if the efforts were unsuccessful.

Unlike the early on emigrants to Sierra Leone, the African refugees of the War of 1812 remained, inwards bully part, inwards Nova Scotia. In 1820, the British colonial regime offered to emigrate them to Trinidad. Archive records betoken that 95 Africans chose to piece of job out for Trinidad. The tape equally good indicates that others feared migrating to Trinidad would atomic number 82 to a furnish to slavery.

Searchable archive records of African short town inwards the Nova Scotia as well as emigration to West Africa as well as the Caribbean Area are at Nova Scotia Archives, available HERE.

Here's a sample of the youth music out of Nova Scotia.

Until lions convey their historians, tales of the hunt shall e'er glorify the hunter. - African Proverb