Distinct People
Nearly 1,000 War of 1812 Refugees ended up settling in this community.
What is Preston?
What is the first question you get when you enter an African Nova Scotian's house?
What is 'did you eat?'
In this year, slavery was officially abolished throughout the British Empire.
1833
This African Nova Scotian businesswoman challenged racial segregation at the Roseland Theatre in 1946 (and in what community).
Who is Viola Desmond? New Glasgow
There are this many original land-based Black communities in Nova Scotia
What is 52 communities?
In 2017, data showed that Black people in Halifax were approximately this many times more likely than white people to be stopped by police.
What is 3 times?
Black patients can experience poorer care and worse outcomes and may feel that their symptoms are not taken seriously. What systemic issue does this illustrate?
What is racism in healthcare?
This group of Black people sided with the British during the American Revolution, and arrived in the 1780's
Who are the Black Loyalists?
This annual summer celebration in Halifax brings African Nova Scotian communities together for music, food, family and culture.
What is North Preston Day?
Contrary to a common misconception, slavery in Canada was established in this province through a royal mandate in 1689.
What is Quebec?
This physician graduated from Dalhousie Medical School in 1933 and provided care to historic Black communities including Africville, Beechville and the Prestons.
Who is Dr. Alfred Waddell?
This community leader and activist was a prominent advocate for African Nova Scotian rights and helped establish the Black United Front.
Who is Burnley Allan "Rocky" Jones?
This form of policing involved police stopping people and recording information without necessarily arresting or charging them.
What is street checks?
Race should not be treated as a biological cause of health differences; instead, it can function as a marker of this.
What is racism and other social/structural determinants of health?
This group of Black people came with the New England Planters in the 1760s
Who are the Black Planters?
This community near Shelburne became the largest settlement of free Black people in the world outside Africa at the time.
What is Birchtown?
Many Caribbean migrants ended up working in these two major Cape Breton industries.
What are coal and steel?
First Black woman in Nova Scotia's history to serve as Lieutenant Governor.
Who is Mayann E. Francis?
The Black experience of being excluded from jobs, education, housing or other resources because of race is an example of this determinant of health.
What is anti-Black racism?
A 2021 Nova Scotia review found that African Nova Scotian students were disproportionately placed in these educational plans.
What are Individual Program Plans?
What does the creation of the No. 2 Construction Battalion tell us about the experience of Black Canadians during WWI?
That Black Canadians served their country while simultaneously facing racial discrimination and exclusion.
Freedom fighters from Trelawny Town
Who are the Jamacian Maroons?
This denomination has played a central role in African Nova Scotian community life, with churches serving as places of worship, gathering, leadership and organizing.
What is the African United Baptist Association (AUBA)?
This document recorded the names and status of Black people leaving New York at the end of the American Revolution.
What is the Book of Negroes?
This Trinidadian-born physician established a medical practice in Halifax and became known for treating hundreds of victims of the 1917 Halifax Explosion from his home clinic.
Who is Dr. Clement Ligoure?
When the Loyalists arrived in 1783, this was already flourishing in Nova Scotia.
What is slavery?
The province's current Crown prosecution policy specifically addresses the fair treatment of African Nova Scotians and people of African descent because of this ongoing issue.
What is overrepresentation in the criminal justice system?
Despite fighting for Britain in exchange for freedom, this group was denied equal status and many were cheated of their promised land.
Who are the Black Loyalists?
Until this year, more than half of all Black people in Canada were African Nova Scotian.
This famous line from Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” was inspired by a speech Marcus Garvey delivered in Cape Breton in 1937.
What is “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery”?
For generations, many African Nova Scotian families lived on land passed down through their families without this legal documentation, making it difficult to mortgage, sell, transfer or develop their property.
What is land title?
This African navigator and interpreter is credited as the first recorded Black person to arrive in what is now Nova Scotia, accompanying French explorers to Port Royal in the early 1600s.
Who is Mathieu da Costa?
In 1792, more than 1,000 Black people left Halifax aboard 15 ships bound for this destination.
What is Sierra Leone?
Canada has historically lacked consistent collection of this type of information in health care.
What is race/Indigenous identity data?
Race-based data should not simply be collected; communities should have meaningful involvement in how it is governed, analyzed and used. What principle does this represent?
What is community governance/data sovereignty?
This region was the primary source of the Black migrants who came to Cape Breton in the early 20th century.
What is the Caribbean?
This Cape Breton community is known for its strong Black community traditions, including music, church and celebrations connected to its Caribbean heritage.
What is Whitney Pier?
The Black Cultural Centre itself is located in this African Nova Scotian community.
Born in Halifax in 1870, this boxer became the first Black world boxing champion and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Who is George Dixon?
Name three communities settled by War of 1812 Refugees.
What are Preston, Upper Hammonds Plains, Beechville and Campbell Road/Africville?
In the 1960s, Halifax relocated Africville residents and demolished their homes as part of this broader process.
What is urban renewal or gentrification?
Access to safe, affordable and stable housing is one example of this social determinant of health.
What is housing?