Eddie Carvery was born in Africville, Nova Scotia, when the African-Nova Scotian seaside village in Halifax was midway through its third century. As a teenager, he watched his world torn down as his friends and family were compelled to leave. After Africville was bulldozed in the 1960s under the guise of 'urban renewal, ' Eddie Carvery returned to the site of his former hometown and pitched a tent in protest. After forays into careers as a community organizer, sheet-metal worker, and fisherman, Eddie returned to the ruins of Africville in 1970 to start his protest for the reclamation of his people's land and history. Forty years, three families, seven heart attacks, and numerous attempts on his life later, he remains living on the land where he was born.

Carvery, Eddie
Africville (Halifax Regional Municipality, N.S.) — Biography
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Co-published by Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, Africville Genealogy Society, and National Film Board, Atlantic Centre. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery, Mount Saint Vincent University, Oct. 1989, and touring Canada from July 1990-Dec. 1992, thereafter to be on permanent display at the Black Cultural Centre, Westphal, Dartmouth. Issued also in French.

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Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia
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National Film Board of Canada. Atlantic Centre.

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Africville (Halifax, N.S.) — History — Exhibitions
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