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Africville, a site of remembrance

The Africville Monument at Seaview Memorial Park, Halifax, listing the community’s founding families, photographed in 2017. Africville Monument (37643013342) · Coastal Elite from Halifax, Canada · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.

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Africville, on Bedford Basin in Halifax, was a Black community settled in the 1830s and 1840s, with its own school and church. Its houses were demolished in the 1960s in the name of urban renewal and the land became Seaview Park; the clearance became an enduring symbol to Black Canadians of the need to defend their institutions, and the site is now a place of remembrance and pilgrimage.

Scope & context

The community and its significance, not the later apology or settlement agreements.

Sources behind this record

Africville National Historic Site ↗

Parks Canada

Description of historic place; Heritage value