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Birchtown is a
community and
National Historic Site in the
Canadian province of Nova Scotia,
located near
Shelburne in the Muni****l
District of Shelburne...
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settlements include:
Gibson Woods, Greenville,
Weymouth Falls,
Birchtown, East Preston,
Cherry Brook, Lincolnville,
Upper Big Tracadie, Five Mile...
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British North America,
where they were
settled in the
newly established Birchtown and
other places in the colony.
According to the
Treaty of
Paris (1783)...
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British ships. He
settled in a town
designed for African-Americans,
Birchtown, Nova Scotia. He was a
leader in the town,
called a
magistrate and commissioned...
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officials in the town of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, and the
nearby village of
Birchtown. They have been
characterized as the
first race
riots in Canada, and one...
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African descent to
arrive there at any one time. One of
their settlements,
Birchtown, Nova
Scotia was the
largest free
African community in
North America for...
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Aminata arrives in
Shelburne and
begins to work in the
black community of
Birchtown,
where she
meets Jason, a
young fellow whom she
listed in the "Book of...
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eligible to leave; it was ****embled by
Samuel Birch, the
namesake of
Birchtown, Nova Scotia,
under the
direction of Guy Carleton, 1st
Baron Dorchester...
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settled in Nova Scotia,
where they were
finally granted land. They
founded Birchtown, but
faced harsh winters and
racial discrimination from
nearby Shelburne...
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after she
arrived in Port Rosey, she
settled in
Birchtown, Nova Scotia,
where she
appears on the
Birchtown Muster of 1784. By that time, she is no longer...
