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	Africville, Nova Scotia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Africville was a small unincorporated community located on the southern shore of Bedford Basin, adjacent to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
		Africville was populated entirely by fl families from a wide variety of origins.
		Although its residents fought bitterly, Africville was destroyed between 1964 and 1967, and its residents relocated into poorly-constructed public housing downtown near Uniacke Square and Mulgrave Park, while some were sent to slum housing further away from the city in places like Spryfield.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Africville,_Nova_Scotia (825 words)

	Africville biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Africville was a small neighborhood in the north end of Halifax, Nova Scotia, populated entirely by fl families from a wide variety of origins.
		Also ideal for developers was the fact that many of Africville's inhabitants were technically squatters with no legal title to their homes or land, making them exceptionally vulnerable to outside pressure.
		Though its residents fought it bitterly, Africville was destroyed and its residents relocated to slum housing further away from the city.
	africville.biography.ms (335 words)

	Africville - WikipÃ©dia, l'encyclopÃ©die libre et gratuite
		Africville Ã©tait un petit voisinage dans l'extrÃ©mitÃ© du nord de Halifax, Nouvelle-Ãcosse, peuplÃ©e entiÃ¨rement par des familles noires d'une grande variÃ©tÃ© d'origines.
		Bien que ses rÃ©sidants l'aient combattu amÃ¨rement, Africville a Ã©tÃ© dÃ©truit entre 1964 et 1967 et ses rÃ©sidants ont Ã©tÃ© dÃ©placÃ©s aux logements publics et mal construits dans le centreville.
		Pour beaucoup du population de la Nouvelle-Ãcosse, Africville reste un symbole de discrimination raciale.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Africville (451 words)

	Africville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Africville, a fl community on the northern end of the Halifax peninsula, directly south of the Bedford Basin, was home to around 400 people when it was decided that the area would be cleared and developed into an industrial area in 1964.
		Africville was a "tight-knit" community, and many of the the residents had lived in the area their entire lives.
		The removal of Africville and the relocation of its residents was thought to be a positive step in Halifax's urban renewal plans in the late 1950s and 1960s by the government.
	www.macalester.edu /geography/courses/geog261/ahannert/halifaxafricville.html (240 words)

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		In Africville, property values fell as a result, while the lack of water meant that the residents could not insure their property against fire.
		Africville became one of the many victims of society’s preoccupation with economic development, at the expense of community.
		The residents of Africville were thus victims of a tragic blunder.
	www.learnersportal.com /avilleprint.htm (551 words)

	Pamela Brown, Africville: Urban Removal in Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The residents of Africville were informed of the council decision and expressed a strong desire to remain in the area and to work with the city in developing it as a residential area.
		The community of Africville is like a patient that has had shivered for weeks in the corridor of a hospital and then is suddenly whipped into a private room where a squadron of nurses fight to take her temperature and feel her pulse.
		Africville residents were not consulted in the formation of initial relocation terms, and no attention was given to considering strategies whereby residents could be involved in the planning process.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/44/170.html (2430 words)

	cars - Africville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Africville was a small neighbourhood in the north end of Halifax, Nova Scotia, populated entirely by fl families from a wide variety of origins.
		Most of the former area of Africville is now occupied by the feeder roads that service the A.
		Though its residents fought it bitterly, Africville was destroyed between 1964 and 1967 and its residents relocated to slum housing further away from the city or poorly constructed public housing downtown.
	www.carluvers.com /cars/Africville,_Nova_Scotia (446 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Africville was demolished, but the spirit of the community lived on.
		Many key participants in the events of the 1960s offer their reflections on the destruction of the community, highlighting the lessons learned from a decision widely considered to be wrong—even by those who supported and implemented it at the time.
		The Spirit of Africville is a beautiful, poignant account of a proud African Nova Scotian community, and of the systematic neglect, ignorance and arrogance that destroyed it.
	www.formac.ca /main_book.php?id=113 (163 words)

	Dear Editor: Subject: Africville
		Africville was founded by the Jamaican Maroons when they landed in Nova Scotia perhaps as early as the late 1700’s.
		Africville was a small community situated on the shores of the Bedford Basin.
		Africville was there before the city dump (which was only 300 meters away from the closest home), the Infectious Diseases Hospital, the slaughter house and the railroad tracks which had no railroad crossing signs.
	www.rockingham.ednet.ns.ca /external/6c_files/Africville_documents/afrlettsall.htm (2095 words)

	(DV) Petersen: The Ethnic Cleansing of Africville
		In fact, the displacement of the residents of Africville and the mass destruction of their potential as well as their ability to develop as a community is organically tied to one historical continuum called racism.
		Its long history, its special population and their employment characteristics, the years of neglect of this community by the administration of the city of Halifax, the unique importance of this settlement for all the people of Nova Scotia and for Canada must be borne in mind by negotiators.
		Most Africville residents received an average payout of C$500 -- “hardly an amount sufficient for resettlement in metropolitan Halifax, in which the cost of living ranks among the highest in Canada” -- and those who were fortunate had their belongings transferred in garbage trucks before the community was bulldozed in the middle of the night.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Mar04/Petersen0329.htm (1239 words)

	Not Formica » Africville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Africville is one of many signals to the Canadian Black population that remind us that dangers to fl communities and traditions can, have and will guise themselves as city development projects, and area upgrading.
		Though the [government] of Nova Scotia claims that the relocation was for humanitarian reasons and as a part of a large urban renewal plan the city had proposed, records revealed the true purpose to the relocation of this fl community.
		What happened to the residents of Africville may be a lesson for all Black communities that find themselves at odds with community development and the push toward gentrification.
	www.notformi.ca /?p=154 (274 words)

	Black Business Initiative - Read News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A multimillion-dollar lawsuit launched against the city by former Africville residents and their descendants is on hold for at least a year.
		A United Nations draft report in March said the loss of Africville was an injustice that should be rectified and it recommended compensation.
		Africville had about 80 families when it was razed.
	www.bbi.ca /news2.asp?id=69 (472 words)

	Africville - Result for Africville - Meaning of Africville - Definition of Africville - Dictionary of Meaning - ...
		'''Africville''' was a small neighbourhood in the north end of Halifax, Nova Scotia, populated entirely by Black Canadian fl families from a wide variety of origins.
		Also ideal for developers was the fact that many of Africville's inhabitants were technically squatter s with no legal title to their homes or land, making them exceptionally vulnerable to outside pressure.
		Cheers, User:Plasma east Plasma east 07:29, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC) :Given that Africville is a "historic" town, in that no one actually lives there anymore, and it is more of an idea than a place now, I would suggest we leave it at Africville until another Africville, needing disambiguation is added to.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Africville.html (596 words)

	Imprint Online: Human - Africville, the devastating story of a Black settlement in Halifax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Africville was a small settlement in the north end of what is now Halifax settled by former Black American slaves after the War of 1812.
		It was officially founded in the 1840s, but many of the families who settled there can trace their origins in Africville as far back as the 1700s, its people were among the first settlers in Nova Scotia.
		As a result of these industries and the lack of sewage, water, and lights, Africville gained the reputation of a dirty lawless slum, when in reality it was a group of heart bound citizens striving to survive while being treated like lower class citizens.
	imprint.uwaterloo.ca /issues/021601/4Human/features02.shtml (539 words)

	Sociology: Faculty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Africville: the life and death of a Canadian Black Community was the result of his work.
		Magill believes the relevance of the Africville study lies in its representation of the failure of the liberal-welfare model of community relocation.
		Magill’s work on Africville constitutes "action research." Instead of an impartial collection of data as is the standard practice in academic research, Magill and his colleagues could not help but to become involved with many of the social issues arising out of the relocation.
	www.utoronto.ca /sociology/faculty/magill.html (828 words)

	DaCosta 400 - 400 Years of black Canadiana
		In a basic sense Africville was an African Nova Scotian community —- an urban village in northern Halifax on the edge of the basin.
		Africville is protected from the Halifax Explosion in 1917 by the “Narrows” bluff of land.
		Industries and institutions no one else wanted were set up surrounding Africville -- a prison, a bone meal plant, night soil pits from the railway, a slaughterhouse, a glue factory, a paint factory, and a tuberculosis hospital.
	www.dacosta400.ca /cavalcade/africville.shtml (1007 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Spirit of Africville, by the Africville Genealogy Society with contributions by Donald Clairmont, Stephen Kimber, Bridglal Pachai and Charles Saunders, 1992.
		Africville was a fl community in northern Halifax and consisted of approximately four-hundred people of eighty families, many of them were descended from settlers who moved there more than a century ago.
		Africville was located beside the Halifax city dump and public services such as sewage and lighting were absent in Africville.
	www.stthomasu.ca /~truth/truth01/finlwebs/GTMHM/auburn3.htm (272 words)

	General Brock.com — News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Located in north Halifax, Africville was home to about 400 fl Nova Scotians until it was razed by the city starting in 1964.
		Africville residents were not consulted in the formulation of the relocation program.
		Efforts by the Africville Genealogy Society to gain compensation for the families of Africville residents have, to date, not been fruitful.
	www.generalbrock.com /level2/articles/news/afric.htm (263 words)

	CBC News:Africville named historic site in Halifax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Africville was a small, close-knit community that had existed for about 150 years.
		City council in Halifax refused to provide water and sewage and Africville was often used as a dumping ground for projects that others didn't want.
		After that, there was an infectious disease hospital built … We had fertilizer plants … And the last thing to come to Africville was in 1955 with the city dump being located 300 metres from the nearest home," Carvery said.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2002/07/05/Africville020705 (427 words)

	Africville: the life and death of a Canadian Black community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the mid 1960s the city of Halifax decided to relocate the inhabitants of Africville-a fl community that had been transformed by civil neglect, mismanagement and poor planning into one of the worst city slums in Canada's 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.
	www.cspi.org /books/a/afric.htm (155 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Long razed, settlement not forgotten
		Africville is the subject of books and exhibitions at local universities and cultural centers.
		But Africville had ''the mystique," said Donald H. Clairmont, a sociology professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax who researched the community during the 1960s and cowrote ''Africville: The Life and Death of a Canadian Black Community." ''Africville doesn't go away.
		Most Africville homeowners -- including ones with no proof of ownership -- were paid between $500 and $1,000 for their homes.
	www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2005/01/02/long_razed_settlement_not_forgotten?mode=PF (1200 words)

	Catholic New Times: Destruction of African-Canadian community
		In her report to the UN WCAR, Denise Allen identified several components of institutional racism: "Displacement, denial of essential services, environmental and health degradation, segregation, denial of justice in the courts, unemployment/underemployment, economic inequality, cultural assimilation and denial of education." There was denial of services and human rights.
		Within walking distance of Africville homes, city officials permitted the establishment of an open city dump; three systems of railway tracks, some of which went through the community; disposal pits of Halifax toxic waste; a hospital for infectious diseases; a slaughter house; sewage disposal units; a prison.
		The Africville citizens were moved to various parts of Halifax, the total cost of the relocation was just over $800,000.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0MKY/is_10_28/ai_n13467186 (740 words)

	Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada: Africville Suite: the struggle for recognition. (interview with composer Joe ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Composer and arranger Joe Sealy wrote the Africville Suite as a memorial to Africville, a small fl community in Montreal where his father was born.
		He wrote the first piece entitled Africville in 1992 after watching a documentary about the community and completed the entire suite in 1994.
		Joe Sealy's Africville Suite was premiered at the 10th annual Du Maurier Downtown Toronto Jazz Festival on June 22nd.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:19090939&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (185 words)

	Black Business Initiative - Read News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But Irvine Carvery, president of the Africville Genealogy Society, which has a lawsuit pending against Halifax city hall, said the federal government should still feel compelled to act.
		Africville was a fl settlement dating back to the 1700s in what now is Halifax.
		Over the years, as Halifax grew, Africville was hemmed in by industrial areas.
	www.bbi.ca /news2.asp?id=47 (597 words)

	Recomnetwork \| Children fished and picked flowers Africville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		To fl activists, the word Africville conjures up the unresolved history of a racially motivated relocation of 80 families and the razing of their homes more than 30 years ago.
		He and about 400 fls were forced to leave Africville between 1964 and 1970 as the city of Halifax embarked on an urban renewal exercise to eliminate an area they considered to be a slum.
		The declaration of Africville as a national historic site should be the first step in addressing the demands of the fl community for recognition of past injustices, Irvine Carvery, head of the Africville Genealogical Society, said.
	www.recomnetwork.org /articles/02/07/07/1747237.shtml (789 words)

	Protesters demand action on Africville redress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Africville descendants and supporters march toward City Hall in Halifax on Thursday.
		Africville descendants and supporters yell on the steps of City Hall in Halifax on Thursday.
		Carvery, who lived in Africville when it was razed in the 1960s in the name of urban renewal, said the genealogy society will continue to pressure governments until an apology is issued and redress delivered.
	www.herald.ns.ca /cgi-bin/home/displaypackstory?2004/06/23+174.raw+FE04Jun23+2 (632 words)

	eye - The Halifax implosion - 05.06.04
		In 1965, the neighbourhood was marked for demolition and an expansion of the city's port.
		For decades, the area around Africville had been designated for Halifax's dirtiest industries; in the last 20 years, an abbatoir joined a city dump and incinerator in the immediate area.
		Predictably, the Africville neighbourhood was infested with rats, and the decision to relocate residents (made by a committee of both fl and white outsiders) was cast as a humanitarian gesture.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_05.06.04/arts/consecratedground.html (759 words)

	CM Magazine: Last Days in Africville. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fortunately, she does not wind up having to face it alone for her family and a newfound friend come to her defense and stand by her when times are tough and accusations start to fly.
		And in spite of her trials at school, Selina recognizes how lucky she is to be surrounded by the warmth and love of her family and her Africville neighbours who are like extended family to her.
		In a very short space of time, Selina learns of the rumours about Africville's fate, her best friend moves as part of the relocation, her grandmother dies, and she and her parents pack up and move as well.
	www.umanitoba.ca /cm/vol10/no14/lastdaysinafricville.html (1303 words)

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