Nova Scotia Archives

African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition

A.W. Evans' farm, Preston, with a view of the piggery

The low building in the centre of the photo is the piggery. Evans was a successful livestock farmer and a member of the County Council.

Date: 1949

Photographer: C.R. Brookbank

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives  C.R. Brookbank, Afro-Canadian Communities in Halifax County, Nova Scotia (unpublished MA thesis, University of Toronto, 1949), page 21 (HT431 /B871 /A259) negative number: N-6932

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