Africville (Halifax, N.S.)

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44.674492, -63.618682 Map of Africville (Halifax, N.S.)

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Africville (Halifax, N.S.)

Africville (Halifax, N.S.)

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Africville (Halifax, N.S.)

  • UF Halifax (N.S.). Africville

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Africville (Halifax, N.S.)

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Research data invoving interviewee #36

File contains research data involving interviewee #36, a human subject who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. File includes the questionnaire response of interviewee #36; an interview transcript; income and rental records; applications from the Halifax Housing Authority; reports about interviewees #30 and #36; and a staff report sent to members of the Sub-Committee of Council on Africville and the Representatives of the Human Rights Advisory Committee.

Settlement Sheets related to the Africville Relocation Project

File contains a five-page document outlining furniture allowance expenditures to Africville relocatees, a one page typed letter advising Members or the Sub-Committee of Council on Africville and the Representatives of the Human Rights Advisory Committee on the subject of Furniture Allowance as compensation for residents of Africville who do not own property, as well as a document entitled "Children’s Hospital Africville Residents" with a name column and an amount column (two pages, typed).

Settlements to persons not in Africville at time of relocation

File contains legal and real estate correspondence about settlements for Africville properties that were owned by people who did not live in Africville at the time of relocation. The file includes staff reports sent to members of the Sub-Committee of Council on Africville and the Representatives of the Human Rights Advisory Committee; forms with information about amounts paid for settlements; some handwritten notes; and other related documents. Some of the correspondence and reports refer to interviewees #27, #29, #30, #45, #92, #101, #102, #128, #140, #144, and #145.

Survey of Africville Homes completed by the city.

File contains facsimiles of city records related to surveys of Africville homes. File includes a key, relating property numbers to the purported owner of the property, and is arranged by those within the Industrial Mile, and those outside the "Expropriated Area".

The Dalhousie Gazette, Volume 151, Issue 10

Item is an issue of The Dalhousie Gazette published on February 15, 2019. Issue features the articles "Sex and love: The steamiest issue of the year," "Sex-ed IRL," "#lovelettertomysextoy," and "An athlete breaks up with her sport."

Three photographs of Africville residents

File contains three black and white photographs of Africville scenes: 1. a group sitting outside in folding chairs listening to a speaker, with the MacKay Bridge in the background; 2. the same group of people from the left-hand side of the crowd; 3. three unidentified men and one unidentified woman standing in front of the Cornwallis Street Baptist Church van.

Transcript of an interview between Dennis Magill and H. Bond Jones

File contains the transcript of an interview conducted by Dennis Magill with Mr. H. Bond Jones, a welfare officer for the city of Halifax, on October 7, 1969, regarding the Africville Relocation Project. File also contains the summary of an interview conducted with Jones in August of the same year, as well as a list of questions and facsimile newspaper clippings.

Transcript of an interview between Dennis Magill and interviewee 117

File contains the partial transcript of an interview conducted by Dennis Magill with interviewee #117, a human subject who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. There is evidence that part of the interview transcript may be missing, as there is damage to the upper left corner where a staple once was.

Transcripts of interviews conducted by John de Roche

File contains the transcripts of interviews conducted by John de Roche with several different interviewees of the Africville Relocation Study, human subjects who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. Interviewees include #17, 18, 21, 25, 63, 88, 89, 117, and 118.

Work facts from survey

File contains brief summaries with notes about working lives of residents of Africville. Notes have been annotated and numbered by hand. Numbers do not match code numbers.
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