Black Nova Scotians
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title:
Black Nova Scotians
text:
Black Nova Scotians are Black Canadians whose ancestors primarily date back to the Colonial United States as slaves or freemen, later arriving in Nova Scotia, Canada, during the 18th and early 19th centuries. As of the 2021 Census of Canada, 28,220 Black people live in Nova Scotia, most in Halifax. Since the 1950s, numerous Black Nova Scotians have migrated to Toronto for its larger range of opportunities. The first recorded free African person in Nova Scotia, Mathieu da Costa, a Mikmaq interpre
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Black Canadians descended from American slaves, black Indigenous people, or freemen
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Nova_Scotians
date created:
2007-02-28T23:21:29Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T21:09:25Z
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