Showing posts with label Nova Scotia.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nova Scotia.. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Black Loyalist Heritage Centre opens June 6th

The Black Loyalist Heritage Centre, located in Birchtown, Nova Scotia (just outside of Shelburne on the province's’ southwest coast), will have their grand opening on Saturday June 6, 2015. The grand opening has the title of The Journey Back to Birchtown.

It will performances by African Nova Scotian artists and a multi-media stage presentation. Performers include Juno award-winner JRDN, Jeremiah Sparks, Dutch Robinson, Shelley Hamilton, Cyndi Cain, Joe Sealey, the Nova Scotia Mass Choir, the Sierra Leone dancers, Shauntay Grant, Hillcrest Academy Djembe Group and many more.

The program will also feature John Franklin of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and the Book of Negroes author Lawrence Hill.

Tours of the new facility will begin at 9 am, keynote addresses in the morning, procession of dignitaries from the Black Burial Ground, National Historic Monument at 1:30 pm and entertainment will start in the afternoon at 2 pm.

If you haven’t been to the site before, is a digital archive which you can read Our Story at http://blackloyalist.com/cdc/index.htm

To read more about the details, go to http://blackloyalist.com/

Their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Black-Loyalist-Heritage-Centre/111527972216141?fref=photo





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Saturday, January 14, 2012

William Mc/MacDonald – One Name Study


Diane Tibet write that she has started a One Name Study on her great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather were both William McDonald from Harrigan Cove, Halifax County, Nova Scotia.

She says that as "many of you can testify, researching common names like this add to the challenge of locating pertinent information".

You can read about here: http://rootstothepast.wordpress.com/genealogy-news

Diane Lynn Tibert is the author of Roots to the Past genealogy column which appears in several newspapers around Atlantic Canada.