East Preston, Nova Scotia
East Preston is an expansive rural Black Nova Scotian community located in eastern Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, in Atlantic Canada. The population at the time of the 2016 census was 869. Geography East Preston is within the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Halifax Regional Municipality. It was located East of another rural area, Preston, Nova Scotia, Preston. East Preston is accessible off Nova Scotia Trunk 7, Trunk 7 or Nova Scotia Route 207, No 207 on Marine Drive (Nova Scotia), Marine Drive through the Nova Scotia Route 328, Ross Road or the Mineville, Nova Scotia, Mineville Road. History East Preston was founded in the 19th century. It is believed to have been named after Preston, Lancashire, England or Thomas Preston (British Army officer), Thomas Preston, a British army officer involved in the Boston Massacre during the American Revolution. While it is often thought that the community is named after Rev. Richard Preston (clergyman), Richard Presto ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada, located on its east coast. It is one of the three Maritime Canada, Maritime provinces and Population of Canada by province and territory, most populous province in Atlantic Canada, with an estimated population of over 1 million as of 2024; it is also the second-most densely populated province in Canada, and second-smallest province by area. The province comprises the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island, as well as 3,800 other coastal islands. The province is connected to the rest of Canada by the Isthmus of Chignecto, on which the province's land border with New Brunswick is located. Nova Scotia's Capital city, capital and largest municipality is Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax, which is home to over 45% of the province's population as of the 2021 Canadian census, 2021 census. Halifax is the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, twelfth-largest census metropolitan area in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Thomas Preston (British Army Officer)
Captain Thomas Preston ( 1722 – 1798 was a British military officer who served in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts. He commanded the troops involved in the Boston Massacre in 1770 and was tried for murder, but was acquitted. Historians have never settled whether he ordered his men to fire on the colonists. Preston was originally from Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland; his people were among the Protestants settled there. Boston Massacre Preston was a captain of the 29th Regiment of Foot, part of the British garrison in Boston under the overall command of Thomas Gage. He was present at the Boston Massacre, also known as the Incident on King Street, when on 5 March 1770 a group of soldiers from the 29th fired on colonists of the city, after an aggressive mob had confronted them and thrown snowballs, clubs, and rocks at them. Captain Thomas Preston showed up on the scene to help the other troops. Charges were brought against him and other soldiers, but he was acquit ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Black Canadian Settlements
Black is a color that results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, without chroma, like white and grey. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness.Eva Heller, ''Psychologie de la couleur – effets et symboliques'', pp. 105–26. Black and white have often been used to describe opposites such as good and evil, the Dark Ages versus the Age of Enlightenment, and night versus day. Since the Middle Ages, black has been the symbolic color of solemnity and authority, and for this reason it is still commonly worn by judges and magistrates. Black was one of the first colors used by artists in Neolithic cave paintings. It was used in ancient Egypt and Greece as the color of the underworld. In the Roman Empire, it became the color of mourning, and over the centuries it was frequently associated with death, evil, witches, and magic. In the 14th century, it was worn by royalty, clergy, judges, and government off ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Floyd Kane
Floyd Kane is a Canadian film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known as the creator of '' Diggstown'', the CBC series filmed in Atlantic Canada. Early life and education Floyd Kane was born in East Preston, a predominantly Black community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. He pursued an English degree at St. Mary's University in Halifax before enrolling at Dalhousie Law School. Career Kane graduated law school and commenced his legal career articling with Blake, Cassels & Graydon in Toronto. He was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1998. From 1999 to 2003, Kane secured a position as in-house legal counsel at Salter Street Films, a movie and television production company based in Atlantic Canada. As a media lawyer and production executive, he worked on notable productions such as ''This Hour Has 22 Minutes'' and the ''Bowling For Columbine'' documentary. While practicing law within the film industry, Kane also pursued his passion for writing sc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shay Colley
Shay Colley (born January 6, 1996) is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Tango Bourges Basket of the Ligue Féminine de Basketball (LFB). She played college basketball for the Michigan State Spartans. Early life Colley was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and went to St. Edmund Campion Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario. At St. Edmund Campion Secondary School, she led her squad to a pair of regional championships during the 2010 and 2011 seasons. In 2014, she earned a gold medal in the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Association (OFSAA). College career Colley began her collegiate career at the University of South Carolina before joining Michigan State University as a redshirt sophomore in 2017. During her junior year in 2019, she led the team in rebounding and scored the game-winning basket over Central Michigan in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Career statistics College Source References External links * Michigan State Sp ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Wanda Thomas Bernard
Wanda Thomas Bernard (born August 1, 1953) is a Canadian senator. Career She was formerly a social worker and educator from East Preston, Nova Scotia. Bernard is the first Black Canadian to have an academic tenure position and become a full professor at Dalhousie University, where her research focuses on anti-oppression and diversity. Bernard was one of the founding members of the Association of Black Social Workers. As a Senator On October 27, 2016, Bernard was named to the Senate of Canada by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to sit as an independent. At the time of her appointment, she was the chair of the Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women. She is the first African Nova Scotian woman to serve in the Senate Chamber. Bernard supports official recognition of Emancipation Day in Canada, and proposed a 2018 private member's bill to that effect. Bernard joined the Progressive Senate Group on July 8, 2020. Accolades and nominations In 2005, she was appointed to the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yvonne Atwell
Yvonne Atwell (born 1943) is a Canadian community activist, former provincial politician and former hospital administrator. She is known for being the first Black woman elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Early life and education Yvonne Atwell was born in East Preston, Nova Scotia, in 1943. Frustrated by the discrimination she experienced as a Black Nova Scotian, she left the province in 1960, spending 24 years in Toronto. She studied at Centennial College in Ontario and at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. Career Atwell worked for 20 years as an administrator at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, eventually rising to the position of Head of Patient Services. She returned to Nova Scotia in 1984 after inheriting land from her father. From 1993-98 she was the first Managing Director of the African-Canadian Employment Clinic in Halifax. In 1996, Atwell ran unsuccessfully for the leadership of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party in its 1996 leadership ele ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Porters Lake, Nova Scotia
Porters Lake (2011 population: 3,202) is a rural community in the Eastern Shore (Nova Scotia), Eastern Shore region of the Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, between Nova Scotia Trunk 7, Trunk 7 and Nova Scotia Route 207, Route 207, 27.8 km from Halifax. The residents mainly commute to jobs in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Dartmouth, Burnside Industrial Park or in Downtown Halifax. The community is built around the lake from which it takes its name. The Lake Porters Lake is 19 km long, but never more than a kilometre wide and is in the shape of a crescent. The depth of Porters Lake varies significantly from the north end to the south end; the south end is approximately 5 metres deep on average, but the north end averages around 12 metres deep, with one part of the lake reaching 30 metres in depth. It is one of the most popular lakes for recreational boating in the region. The Lake is connected to the Atlantic Ocean near Lawrencetown Beach, because of this, the lake varies in sal ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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North Preston, Nova Scotia
North Preston is a community located in Nova Scotia, Canada within the Halifax Regional Municipality. The community is populated primarily by Black Nova Scotians. North Preston is the largest Black community in Nova Scotia by population, and has the highest concentration of African Canadians in Canada. History The community traces its origins from several waves of migration in the 18th and 19th centuries. The American Revolution brought Black Loyalists to the Preston area. The 1790s brought a different group of Black settlers to the regions, the Maroons from Jamaica. While many Maroons later left for Sierra Leone, a number stayed in Preston and Guysborough County. These groups were joined shortly after by a third migration starting in 1813, of Black refugees from the War of 1812. The Black Refugees came to Nova Scotia mostly from the Southern US states, bringing with them a strong Baptist tradition. These three major waves of migrants were also periodically joined by runaw ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Baptist
Baptists are a Christian denomination, denomination within Protestant Christianity distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete Immersion baptism, immersion. Baptist churches generally subscribe to the Christian theology, doctrines of soul competency (the responsibility and accountability of every person before God in Christianity, God), ''sola fide'' (salvation by faith alone), ''sola scriptura'' (the Bible is the sole infallible authority, as the rule of faith and practice) and Congregationalist polity, congregationalist church government. Baptists generally recognize two Ordinance (Christianity), ordinances: Baptism, baptism and Eucharist, communion. Diverse from their beginning, those identifying as Baptists today may differ widely from one another in what they believe, how they worship, their attitudes toward other Christians, and their understanding of what is important in Christian discipleship. Baptist mi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Black Canadian
Black Canadians () are Canadians of full or partial Afro-Caribbean or sub-Saharan African descent. Black Canadian settlement and immigration patterns can be categorized into two distinct groups. The majority of Black Canadians are descendants of immigrants from the Caribbean and the African continent who arrived in Canada during significant migration waves, beginning in the post-war era of the 1950s and continuing into recent decades. A smaller yet historically significant population includes the descendants of African Americans, including fugitive slaves, Black loyalists and refugees from the War of 1812. Their descendants primarily settled in Nova Scotia and Southern Ontario, where they formed distinctive identities such as Black Ontarians and African Nova Scotians. Black Canadians have contributed to many areas of Canadian culture. Many of the first visible minorities to hold high public offices have been Black, including Michaëlle Jean, Donald Oliver, Stanley G. G ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |