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Origins of the African Nova Scotian Community AFRICAN NOVA SCOTIANS Origins of the African Nova Scotian Community moved the Maroons to Sierra T Leone. The next major wave of X community has a long and immigration occurred in the years rich history. For several hundred following the War of 1812, when years, people of African descent approximately 2000 Black have lived in Nova Scotia. Black refugees arrived in Nova Scotia. settlement in Nova Scotia goes as During the pre-World War I peri• far back as 1605, when Mathieu od of industrial growth, immi• Da Costa, believed to be the first grants from the West Indies were person of African descent to recruited to work for the arrive in Canada, traveled with Dominion Coal Company, in the expedition that founded Port Cape Breton. Royal. The years following the American Although people of African War of Independence brought descent continue to immigrate to over 3000 Black Loyalists to Nova Scotia, the majority of Nova Scotia from the Thirteen African Nova Scotians are Colonies. Disappointed with the descended from pre-1820 settlers. poverty and discrimination they Nova Scotian poet, George Elliott found in Nova Scotia, almost a Clarke, has coined the name third of these Black Loyalists "Africadian" to describe this long• departed for Sierra Leone in standing community. 1792. In 1796, over 500 exiled - Jamaican rebels, known as the Maroons, were deported to Nova Scope of this Resource list: Scotia. Four years later, to avoid the cost of maintaining the This list includes materials by and Maroons, the British Government about African Nova Scotians. Contents •••AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AfricviMe • 3 Art & Literature • 4 Biography • 6 Business • 8 Current Issues • 9 Education • 10 History • 11 Music • 17 Religion • 19 Sports • 21 Finding Out More • 21 Photographs • 24 Halifax Public Libraries, 2004 AFRICAN NOVA SCOTIANS Africville, women on hill with TTTTTTTYTTTTYTTTTTTTT four youths, 1950. Africville NSARM, Bob Brooks fonds, 1989-468 Series C, sheet 6 "Africville," by Harold Kalman. In A History of Canadian Architecture, Africville Relocation Report, 675-676. Toronto: Oxford University Supplement, by Donald H. Clalrmont. Press, 1995. Halifax: Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousle University, 1975. "Africville," by Alfreda WIthrow. In One City, Many Communities, 11 "Atrlcvllle Saga." In Halifax's North 12. Halifax: Nimbus, 1999. End: An Anthropologist Looks at the City, by Paul A. Erickson. Africville: A Spirit That Lives On: A Hantsport: Lancelot, 1986. Collaboration of The Art Gallery, Mt. St. Vincent University, the Africville: The Life and Death of a Africville Genealogy Society, the Canadian Black Community, by Black Cultural Centre for Nova Donald H. Clalrmont and Dennis Scotia and the National Film William Maglll. Toronto: Canadian Board. Halifax: The Art Gallery, Scholars' Press, 1999. Mount St. Vincent University, 1989. "Children of Atrlcvllle," by Craig Africville Not for Sale [sound Benjamin. Cities, July-August 1988, 6. recording], produced by Sean Flynn and Dean Smith. Halifax: Nova Scotia From Africville to New Road: How Public Interest Research Group, 1996. Four Communities Planned Their Development, by Althea J. Tolllver, Africville Relocation Report, by James A. Francois, and the Watershed Donald H.Clalrmont and Dennis W. Joint Action Committee. Dartmouth: Maglll. Halifax: Institute of Public Watershed Joint Action Committee / Affairs, Dalhousle University, 1973. Black United Front, 1983. AFRICAN NOVA SCOTIANS "Just a Minute," by Stephanie Domet. Black Express [magazine] 1981-1982 The Coast, 18 March 1999, 11-12. Black Focus [magazine] 199S. Recommendations Made to City "Black Nova Scotian Literature: A Council Regarding the Submission Select Bibliography," by Bernlce M of Irvine Carvery of the Africville Moreau. Journal of Education, No. Genealogy Society Concerning the 400 (April, 1987): 46-SO. Africville Relocation Program 1962-1969: Report, by Halifax City Blue, by George Elliott Clarke. Council. Halifax: City Council, 1994. Vancouver- Polestar, 2001 Remember Africville [vldeorecord- Borrowed Beauty, by Maxine Tynes. Ing]. Montreal: National Film Board of Porter's Lake: Pottersfield Press, 1987 Canada, 1991 Borrowed Beauty [sound recordlngi, The Spirit of Africville, by Charles R. by Maxine Tynes. Porter's Lake: Saunders. Halifax: Formac, 1992. Pottersfield Soundtracks, 1994. "The Unsettlement of Atrlcvllle," by Canaan Odyssey: A Poetic Account Scott Roxborough. The Coast, IS of the Black Experience in North June 199S, 12, 14, 22. America, by George A. Borden. Dartmouth: Black Cultural Centre tor "Winter In Atrlcvllle," by Charles Nova Scotia, 1988. Saunders. Provincial Monitor February 1991, 4. "Casualties," and other poems, by George Elliott Clarke. In Voices: Canadian Writers of African Descent, edited by Ayanna Black. Art & Literature Toronto: HarperCollins, 1992. •••••••AAAAAAAAAAAAAA Collection of Poems, by Cynthia Ann Chandler. Halifax: Halifax Regional Atlantic Black Journal [magazine] Police Service, 1997 1973-74 Consecrated Ground: A Play, by Beatrice Chancy, by George Elliott George EIroy Boyd. Winnipeg: Clarke. Victoria: Polestar Book Blizzard, 1999. Publishers, 1999. Coppertone: The Canadian Negro Beyond the Dark Horizon, by Magazine [magazine]. 1966- Raymond L. Parker Dartmouth: Black Cultural Centre tor Nova Scotia, 1987 The Door of My Heart, by Maxine Tynes. Lawrencetown Beach: "Black Alley Tramp," and Other Pottersfield Press, 1993. Poems, by Gloria Wesley. In Canada in Us Now: The First Anthology of Ebony Express [magazine]. 1979- Black Poetry and Prose in Canada, 1981 edited by Harold Head. Toronto: NC Press, 1976. Execution Poems: The Black Acadian Tragedy of "George and Black Arts Directory for Nova Rue," by George Elliott Clarke. Scotia. Halifax: Black Arts Project, Woltvllle: Gaspereau Press, 2001 1996. Eyeing the North Star: Directions Black Atlantic Writers of the in African- Canadian Literature, Eighteenth Century: Living the edited by George Elliott Clarke. New Exodus in England and the Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, Americas, edited by Adam Potkay. 1997 New York: St. Martin's Press, 199S. AFRICAN NOVA SCOTIANS "Listen to the Language" and "Shoes," by Sylvia Hamilton, and "Why," by Stefan Collins. In Fiery Spirits, edited by Ayanna Black. Toronto: Harper Collins, 1994. Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems, 1978-1993, by George Elliott Clarke. Lawrencetown Beach: Pottersfield Press, 1994. Lush Dreams, Blue Exile [sound recording], by George Elliott Clarke. Porter's Lake: Pottersfield Soundtracks, 1994. "Medicine, Magic, Weaponry, Love: Maxine Tynes' Poetry," byJeanette Lynes. In Words Out There: Women Poets in Atlantic Canada, 117-128. Lockport: Roseway Publishing, 1999. A Mighty Long Way!, by George A. George Elliott Clarke Borden. Dartmouth: G.A.B. Consulting, 2000. Fire on the Water- An Anthology Music from the Sky, [juvenile fiction] of Black Nova Scotian Writing, by Denlse Glllard. Vancouver- Douglas edited by George Elliott Clarke. 2v. and Mclntyre, 2001 Porter's Lake: Pottersfield, 1991 Native Song: Poetry and Paintings, Footprints, images and by David Woods. Porter's Lake: Reflections: An Ethical Analysis of Pottersfield, 1990. the Social Experiences and Relationships of Blacks in Nova Newsletter / Black Cultural Society Scotia, by George A. Borden. - Society for Protection and Dartmouth: Black Cultural Centre tor Preservation of Black Culture in Nova Scotia, 1993. Nova Scotia [magazine]. 1980-1982. "George Elliott Clarke b. 1960 Odysseys Home: Mapping African- (Windsor, Nova Scotia)." In Making a Canadian Literature, by George Difference: Canadian Multicultural Elliott Clarke. Toronto: University of Literature, edited by Smaro Toronto Press, 2002. Kambourell. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1996. Preserver [magazine]. 1987 "George Elliott Clarke," "Sylvia Provincial Monitor [magazine]. Hamilton," "Maxine Tynes" and 1990-1991 "Gloria Wesley Daye."ln Other Voices: Writings hy Blacks in Quehecite, by George Elliott Clarke. Canada, edited by Lorrls Elliott. Woltvllle: Gaspereau Press, 2003. Toronto: Williams-Wallace, 198S. Rachel. Book One: A Mighty Big Grasp [magazine]. 1970-1979? imagining, [juvenile fiction] by Lynne Kosltsky. Toronto: Penguin, 2001 The Jet Journal [magazine] August- October, 198S. AFRICAN NOVA SCOTIANS Rachel. Book Two: The Maybe "Benjamin Jackson (1835-1915)," by House, [juvenile fiction] by Lynne John V. Duncanson. Nova Scotia Kosltsky. Toronto: Penguin, 2002. Genealogist, 5 no. 1 (1987): 10-11 Rap [magazine]. 1986-1987 Black Mother, Black Daughter [vldeorecordlngj. Montreal: National Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Film Board of Canada, 1989. Blues, by George Elliott Clarke. Porter's Lake: Pottersfield Press, 1983. Black Nova Scotians, by John N. Grant. Halifax: Nova Scotia Museum, Save the World for Me, by Maxine 1980. Tynes. Porter's Lake: Pottersfield, 1991 Born with a Call: A Biography of Dr. William Pearly Oliver, CM., by Sistervisions 111: Through Our Eyes, Colin A. Thomson. Dartmouth: Black by Pamela Edmonds. Halifax: Art Cultural Centre tor Nova Scotia, 1986. Gallery of Nova Scotia, 2000. "Boston King: A Negro Loyalist Who "Taking Measure of Maxine," by Sought Refuge In Nova Scotia," by Sharon Eraser. Atlantic Insight, Phyllis R. Blakeley. Dalhousle September 1987 16-18. Review (Autumn, 1968): 347-356. "Tightrope Time," by Walter Borden. "The Boston Tarbaby [Sam Langtordj," Callboard, v 24, no.2. September, by Dr. Alexander Young, Jr. The Nova 1986. Scotia Historical Quarterly 4 no.3 (1974): 277-298. "A Tribute to Black Nova Scotian Poets."
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