African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning Resources

Photographs

No. 2 Construction Battalion CEF "A" Coy.-Capt K.A. Morrison - C.O. - 1916

Date: 1916

Reference: States Collection Nova Scotia Archives 1981-337

''Rita Sampson, 7th generation of Hoping Bowen and Samuel Johnson''

Date: ca. 1950

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Lenore DeWolf Rathbun, First Freed Slaves at Five Mile Plains and Vicinity (typescript, 1950), ill. number 4 (Library GN R18)

''Mary David born August 9, 1866, great-grandaughter of Samuel Johnson, granddaughter of Pompey Johnson and daughter of Ellen Clark, taken at Five Mile Plains, October 15, 1951''

Date: 1951

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Lenore DeWolf Rathbun, First Freed Slaves at Five Mile Plains and Vicinity (typescript, 1950), ill. number 4 (Library GN R18)

Thomas Beals family of North Preston

Date: 1930s

Reference: Clara Dennis Nova Scotia Archives 1983-468 number 106

''John Farmer, descendent of Jupiter the slave, Birchtown, Shelburne County''

Date: early 1930s

Reference: Clara Dennis Nova Scotia Archives 1983-468 number 33

Houses belonging to the Colley family, on the site of Governor's Farm, Preston

Date: 2 October 1934

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Photo Collection: Places: Preston - Gauvin & Gentzel

Scene at North Preston, showing the Baptist church

Date: 2 October 1934

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Photo Collection: Places: Preston - Gauvin & Gentzel

House at North Preston, with group of children in the foreground

Date: 2 October 1934

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Photo Collection: Places: Preston - Gauvin & Gentzel

House at Preston, formerly the Stag Inn

Date: 2 October 1934

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Photo Collection: Places: Preston - Gauvin & Gentzel

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (newspaper clipping)

Date: 12 September 1938

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives "Make Appeal In Behalf Of Church", Halifax Mail 12 September 1938 p.2 (microfilm 7288)

''Winter on Hollis Steet, Halifax, N.S., Christmas trees''

Date: ca. 1947

Reference: Robert Norwood Nova Scotia Archives 1987-480 number 263

William Riley, with his daughter Rose standing behind him in the doorway, Cherry Brook

Date: 1948

Reference: Helen Creighton Nova Scotia Archives 1987-178 number 14-124

''Charlie Symonds, a cooper of Upper Hammonds Plains''

Date: 1949

Reference: C.R. Brookbank Nova Scotia Archives Afro-Canadian Communities in Halifax County, Nova Scotia (unpublished MA thesis, University of Toronto, 1949), page 38 (Library HT431 B871 A259)

Young boy in front of a pile of finished barrel staves at the Anderson sawmill near Hammonds Plains

Date: 1949

Reference: C.R. Brookbank Nova Scotia Archives Afro-Canadian Communities in Halifax County, Nova Scotia (unpublished MA thesis, University of Toronto, 1949), page 38 (Library HT431 B871 A259)

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

Date: 1949

Reference: C.R. Brookbank Nova Scotia Archives Afro-Canadian Communities in Halifax County, Nova Scotia (unpublished MA thesis, University of Toronto, 1949), page 38 (Library HT431 B871 A259)