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    Black Nova Scotians (also known as African Nova Scotians and Afro-Nova Scotians) are an ethnic group consisting of Black Canadians whose ancestors primarily...
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  • Black Nova Scotians. Wayne Adams Yvonne Atwell Wanda Thomas Bernard, Canadian Senator Mayann Francis, first black woman Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia...
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    The Nova Scotian Settlers, or Sierra Leone Settlers (also known as the Nova Scotians or more commonly as the Settlers), were African Americans who founded...
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    African Americans in Canada and their descendants (including Black Nova Scotians). Black Canadians have contributed to many areas of Canadian culture...
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    record number of four Black Nova Scotians were elected MLAs; prior to this election, only five Black MLAs had ever been elected in Nova Scotia. May 30, 2017...
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    Book of Negroes (category Black Loyalists)
    Revolutionary War became the first settlement of Black Nova Scotians and Black Canadians. Other Black Loyalists were transported to settlements in several...
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    Viola Desmond (category Black Nova Scotians)
    activist and businesswoman of Black Nova Scotian descent. In 1946, she challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, by refusing to...
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    Rocky Johnson (category Black Nova Scotians)
    Nova Scotia, where he was raised, the fourth of five sons of Lillian (née Gay; 1919–1996) and James Henry Bowles (1888–1957). A Black Nova Scotian, he...
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  • Ava (wrestler) (category American people of Black Nova Scotian descent)
    granddaughter of Ata (née Maivia) and Rocky Johnson, a Samoan and Black Nova Scotian respectively. Through her paternal grandmother, she is a non-blood...
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  • time. African Nova Scotian English is spoken by descendants of Black Nova Scotians, black immigrants from the United States who live in Nova Scotia, Canada...
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