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The Children of Africville

Author : Christine Welldon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-19
Category : Africville (Halifax, N.S.)
ISBN : 1551097230

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The Children of Africville by Christine Welldon Pdf

The children of Africville, Nova Scotia, lived in a special community where everyone knew their neighbours, and all helped and cared for each other. It was the perfect place for children to play and grow up. The Children of Africville is the remarkable story of these children during the community's final years, before it was torn down and its families were relocated. Full of photographs and stories from Africville people, this book is an important celebration of Nova Scotia black history, its vibrant community, and the children who lived there.

Africville

Author : Shauntay Grant
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781773060446

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Africville by Shauntay Grant Pdf

Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books When a young girl visits the site of Africville, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the stories she’s heard from her family come to mind. She imagines what the community was once like — the brightly painted houses nestled into the hillside, the field where boys played football, the pond where all the kids went rafting, the bountiful fishing, the huge bonfires. Coming out of her reverie, she visits the present-day park and the sundial where her great- grandmother’s name is carved in stone, and celebrates a summer day at the annual Africville Reunion/Festival. Africville was a vibrant Black community for more than 150 years. But even though its residents paid municipal taxes, they lived without running water, sewers, paved roads and police, fire-truck and ambulance services. Over time, the city located a slaughterhouse, a hospital for infectious disease, and even the city garbage dump nearby. In the 1960s, city officials decided to demolish the community, moving people out in city dump trucks and relocating them in public housing. Today, Africville has been replaced by a park, where former residents and their families gather each summer to remember their community.

Last Days in Africville

Author : Dorothy Perkyns
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459715905

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Last Days in Africville by Dorothy Perkyns Pdf

In mid-1960s Halifax, 12-year-old Selina is growing up in a tightly knit community of African-Canadians whose days are numbered when ugly rumours surface about the fate of Africville.

Africville

Author : Donald H. J. Clairmont,Dennis William Magill
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9781551300931

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Africville by Donald H. J. Clairmont,Dennis William Magill Pdf

In the mid 1960s the city of Halifax decided to relocate the inhabitants of Africville--a black community that had been transformed by civil neglect, mismanagement, and poor planning into one of the worst city slums in Canadian history. Africville is a sociological account of the relocation that reveals how lack of resources and inadequate planning led to devastating consequences for Africville relocatees. Africville is a work of painstaking scholarship that reveals in detail the social injustice that marked both the life and the death of the community. It became a classic work in Canadian sociology after its original publication in 1974. The third edition contains new material that enriches the original analysis, updates the account, and highlights the continuing importance of Africville to black consciousness in Nova Scotia.

Africaville

Author : Jeffrey Colvin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062913739

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Africaville by Jeffrey Colvin Pdf

2020 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee-Debut Fiction A ferociously talented writer makes his stunning debut with this richly woven tapestry, set in a small Nova Scotia town settled by former slaves, that depicts several generations of one family bound together and torn apart by blood, faith, time, and fate. Vogue : Best Books to Read This Winter Structured as a triptych, Africaville chronicles the lives of three generations of the Sebolt family—Kath Ella, her son Omar/Etienne, and her grandson Warner—whose lives unfold against the tumultuous events of the twentieth century from the Great Depression of the 1930s, through the social protests of the 1960s to the economic upheavals in the 1980s. A century earlier, Kath Ella’s ancestors established a new home in Nova Scotia. Like her ancestors, Kath Ella’s life is shaped by hardship—she struggles to conceive and to provide for her family during the long, bitter Canadian winters. She must also contend with the locals’ lingering suspicions about the dark-skinned “outsiders” who live in their midst. Kath Ella’s fierce love for her son, Omar, cannot help her overcome the racial prejudices that linger in this remote, tight-knit place. As he grows up, the rebellious Omar refutes the past and decides to break from the family, threatening to upend all that Kath Ella and her people have tried to build. Over the decades, each successive generation drifts further from Africaville, yet they take a piece of this indelible place with them as they make their way to Montreal, Vermont, and beyond, to the deep South of America. As it explores notions of identity, passing, cross-racial relationships, the importance of place, and the meaning of home, Africaville tells the larger story of the black experience in parts of Canada and the United States. Vibrant and lyrical, filled with colorful details, and told in a powerful, haunting voice, this extraordinary novel—as atmospheric and steeped in history as The Known World, Barracoon, The Underground Railroad, and The Twelve Tribes of Hattie—is a landmark work from a sure-to-be major literary talent.

Righting Canada's Wrongs: Africville

Author : Gloria Ann Wesley
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781459416512

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Righting Canada's Wrongs: Africville by Gloria Ann Wesley Pdf

Beginning in the 18th century, Black men and women arrived from the U.S. and settled in various parts of Nova Scotia. In the 1800s, a small Black community had developed just north of Halifax on the shores of the Bedford Basin. The community became known as Africville and grew to about 400 people. Its residents fished, farmed, operated small retail stores and found work in the city. Jobs for Black people were hard to find, with many occupations blocked by racist practices. Women often worked as domestics and many men were train porters. A school and a church were the community’s key institutions. The City of Halifax located a number of undesirable industries in Africville but refused residents’ demands for basic services such as running water, sewage disposal, paved roads, street lights, a cemetery, public transit, garbage collection and adequate police protection. City planners developed urban renewal plans and city politicians agreed to demolish the community. Residents strongly opposed relocation, but city officials ignored their protests and began to seize and bulldoze the homes. In 1967, the church was demolished — in the middle of the night. This was a blow that signaled the end of Africville. In the 1970s, some community members organized and began working for an apology and compensation. In 2010, Halifax’s mayor made a public apology for the community’s suffering and mistreatment. Some former residents accepted this; others continued to campaign for restitution. This new edition documents the continued fight for compensation by community members and their descendants. The spirit and resilience of Africville lives on in new generations of African Nova Scotians.

Climate Change and Life on Earth

Author : Chinwe Onuoha
Publisher : Searchlight Books (Tm) -- Clim
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541538672

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Climate Change and Life on Earth by Chinwe Onuoha Pdf

"Is climate change putting the lives of Earth's plants and animals in jeopardy? Readers will uncover the connections between climate change and life on Earth in this eye-opening book."--

Canada in Colours

Author : Per-Henrik Gürth
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781554537600

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Canada in Colours by Per-Henrik Gürth Pdf

Bestselling illustrator Per-Henrik Gürth takes children on a countrywide exploration in brilliant color.

The Hermit of Africville

Author : Jon Tattrie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215504650

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The Hermit of Africville by Jon Tattrie Pdf

Jon Tattrie is a journalist and writer. After a decade in Europe, he took a job on the Halifax Daily News in 2006. When the paper closed in 2008, he became a full-time freelancer, writing for Metro Canada, Transcontinental Media, the Chronicle-Herald, Halifax and Progress magazines, and other publications. He's sweated in a Mi'kmaq lodge, sailed a tall ship, explored a nuclear bunker and spent Christmas at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport. Black Snow, his first novel, is a love story set during the Halifax Explosion. He lives with his fiancée in Halifax.

Africville's Daughters: I Saw What You Have Done

Author : Sheila Flint
Publisher : Africville's Daughters
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1775090604

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Africville's Daughters: I Saw What You Have Done by Sheila Flint Pdf

Sheila Flint was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on the evening of October 29th, 1951. She was raised not far away in a part of Africville called Bigtown. She and her family enjoyed their life along the shores of Bedford Basin as anyone would - swimming, fishing, and building bonfires for cookouts. She enjoyed lobsters, crabs, mussels, and penny-winkles. This was the life she knew until 1966 when the city of Halifax rushed in with their long-standing plan for 'urban renewal' that would remove their families from their homes. Those affected suffered in numerous ways, including trauma, deaths, and separations of families - including Sheila's immediate family. Sheila and other children were bullied and treated unfairly by the school board because they were black. She endured pains that no girl should have to endure - but she has chosen to forgive and live a life of gratitude. After feeling lost in other people's thoughts and wants for her life, she has learned to choose her own destiny, not leaving it up to others to determine. She now lives in Montreal and has chosen to master whatever comes her way and feel inspired by those who truly care about her. In seeking out new challenges and enjoying her life, she's decided to write Africville's Daughters as her first project. This is an avenue by which she is freeing herself of all burdens and committing to achieving her goals. Sheila is moving past the bad memories to be able to live life and enjoy making new memories with her children and family that she has left.

The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children

Author : Wanda Taylor
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-24
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781771083591

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The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children by Wanda Taylor Pdf

“A history and a testimonial towards healing” of the hundreds of African-Nova Scotian orphans who suffered abuse and neglect at the government’s hands (The Coast). In 1921, prominent lawyer and Nova Scotia Black leader James R. Johnston’s vision of a place welcoming of Black children came to reality. In an era of segregation and overt racism that saw most orphanages refuse to take in Black children, the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children fulfilled an important role. But despite its good intentions, today the Home is mostly known for a troubling past. Former residents launched a class action lawsuit alleging sexual and physical abuse suffered at the Home over a period of several decades. In The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children: The Hurt, The Hope, and The Healing, author Wanda Taylor interviews former residents participating in the lawsuit and upcoming public inquiry and connects their stories to her own relationship with the Home. The former residents in this book provide an unsettling, and sometimes graphic, description of what life was like inside the Home and describe the many ways the government system designed to protect them instead exacerbated a culture of abuse and neglect.

Canada in Words

Author : Per-Henrik Gürth
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781554537105

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Canada in Words by Per-Henrik Gürth Pdf

Prairies, toque, schooner, inukshuk --- certain words perfectly evoke Canada! These and twenty-six other symbols of Canadiana are cheerfully depicted in Per-Henrik Gürth's signature artwork, making Canada in Words the perfect introduction to this diverse and beautiful country.

Canada 123

Author : Kim Bellefontaine
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781554536597

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Canada 123 by Kim Bellefontaine Pdf

A colorful trip from one to ten also takes young learners across Canada, from coast to coast.

Up Home

Author : Shauntay Grant,Susan Tooke
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1774711516

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Up Home by Shauntay Grant,Susan Tooke Pdf

A fifteenth-anniversary edition of the award-winning debut picture book celebrating North Preston, NS, by the Governor General's Literary Award -- shortlisted author of Africville. Happy memories sparkle in this journey through poet Shauntay Grant's childhood visits to North Preston, Nova Scotia. Her words bring to life the sights, sounds, rhythms, and people of a joyful place, while Susan Tooke's vibrant illustrations capture the warmth of one of Canada's most important black communities. Up Home celebrates the magic of growing up, and the power in remembering our roots, now in a new softcover edition celebrating its fifteenth anniversary.

There’s Something In The Water

Author : Ingrid R. G. Waldron
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773630588

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There’s Something In The Water by Ingrid R. G. Waldron Pdf

In “There’s Something In The Water”, Ingrid R. G. Waldron examines the legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada, using Nova Scotia as a case study, and the grassroots resistance activities by Indigenous and Black communities against the pollution and poisoning of their communities. Using settler colonialism as the overarching theory, Waldron unpacks how environmental racism operates as a mechanism of erasure enabled by the intersecting dynamics of white supremacy, power, state-sanctioned racial violence, neoliberalism and racial capitalism in white settler societies. By and large, the environmental justice narrative in Nova Scotia fails to make race explicit, obscuring it within discussions on class, and this type of strategic inadvertence mutes the specificity of Mi’kmaq and African Nova Scotian experiences with racism and environmental hazards in Nova Scotia. By redefining the parameters of critique around the environmental justice narrative and movement in Nova Scotia and Canada, Waldron opens a space for a more critical dialogue on how environmental racism manifests itself within this intersectional context. Waldron also illustrates the ways in which the effects of environmental racism are compounded by other forms of oppression to further dehumanize and harm communities already dealing with pre-existing vulnerabilities, such as long-standing social and economic inequality. Finally, Waldron documents the long history of struggle, resistance, and mobilizing in Indigenous and Black communities to address environmental racism.