
Africville - Imaginary Reconstruction
(Part 2 - Historic Conservation & Heritage Planning)
(2022/ 23)
Thesis Project Research and Design Component
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Summary of Introduction
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Africville (Campbell Road Settlement) was a small 500-acre community situated in the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was one of many Afro-Canadian communities that littered the landscape of the province but unfortunately nearly all suffered several forms of racial marginalization by the administrators in government in addition to the surrounding expansion of the built city from community’s formation in 1848.
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It was predominantly settled by those looking for a better life in the north from the tyranny of war and enslavement in the Americas. Africville is famously known as one of the final destinations for people from the Underground Railroad, for those who were Black Loyalist in the British Army, and other who were brave enough to seek a new beginning in British North America at the time, before, and after the war of 1812, others were freed people from the USA and even Jamaican Maroons.
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Project Status: Design is ongoing. To update the community.
