Its Our Time Honouring The African Nova Scotian Communities Of East Preston North Preston Lake Looncherry Brook 1st Edition Wanda Lauren Taylor by Wanda Lauren Taylor 9781774710043, 9781771087339, 1774710048, 1771087331 instant download after payment.

Established by the British Government in 1784 the Township of Preston was situated on the outskirts of the city of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The Black Loyalists were the Township’s first Black residents.

In July 1796, between 550 and 600 Jamaican Maroons arrived in Halifax after being exiled from their homeland of Jamaica. The British assumed they would have the Marrons take up residence in the Preston Township where the Black Loyalists had once resided. The expectation being that this group of militia men could be transformed into farmers without giving any thought as to their own aspirations in their new homeland.

Following the War of 1812, approximately 2,500 Black refugees came to Nova Scotia and, following a short quarantine on Melville Island in the North West Arm of the Halifax Harbour, they moved across what is present-day Halifax Regional Municipality.

Over the past 235 years the distance between what was once county territory has shifted and, as a result of outmigration and residential expansion to what is now the Halifax Regional Municipality, has shortened the divide geographically between what was once considered the country to city folk and the city of Dartmouth.

These communities have nurtured midwives, politicians, lawyers, artists, doctors, educators, firefighters, police and correctional officers, administrators, craftspeople, clergy, entrepreneurs, musicians, writers, world-class boxers and hockey players, and a senator.