seaview baptist Church easter service
Date: 1965
Photographer: Bob Brooks
Image courtesy of Nova Scotia Archives Reference no.: Bob Brooks Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 1989-468 vol. 16
Audio: Seaview Baptist Church Easter Service
Audio courtesy of Nova Scotia Archives
Bob Brooks’ Photographic Portrait of Africville in the 1960s
Young boy, with Ralph Jones’ house, Africville, boarded up prior to demolition, in the background
Date: ca.1965 Photographer: Bob Brooks Image courtesy of Nova Scotia Archives Reference no.: Bob Brooks Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 1989-468 vol. 16Man making a point at a public meeting at Seaview African United Baptist Church, Africville
Date: 23 August 1962
Photographer: Bob Brooks
Image courtesy of Nova Scotia Archives Reference no.: Bob Brooks Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 1989-468 vol. 16Participants at a public meeting at Seaview African United Baptist Church, Africville
Date: 23 August 1962
Photographer: Bob Brooks
Image courtesy of Nova Scotia Archives Reference no.: Bob Brooks Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 1989-468 vol. 16Woman, hands on hips, watching a group of children climbing a path, Africville
Date: 1965
Photographer: Bob Brooks
Image courtesy of Nova Scotia Archives Reference no.: Bob Brooks Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 1989-468 vol. 16Africville houses in autumn, photographed from edge of Halifax city dump
Date: 1965
Photographer: Bob Brooks
Image courtesy of Nova Scotia Archives Reference no.: Bob Brooks Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 1989-468 vol. 16Two Africville children, with Seaview African United Baptist Church and houses behind it in the distance
Date: 1965
Photographer: Bob Brooks
Image courtesy of Nova Scotia Archives Reference no.: Bob Brooks Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 1989-468 vol. 16
Africville Collection, Halifax Municipal Archives
[Africville working drawing], [between 1953 and 1955?], separated from the Halifax City Manager’s subject file on Africville, 102-4A.5.2a, Halifax Municipal Archives. Africville map, 1955, separated from the Halifax City Manager’s subject file on Africville, 102-4A.5.5a, Halifax Municipal Archives. Africville map, 1955, separated from the Halifax City Manager’s subject file on Africville, 102-4A.5.5b, Halifax Municipal Archives. Industrial Mile – Africville Area: Land Ownership and Buildings, July 26, 1962, City of Halifax Planning Department map, P500/46, Halifax Municipal Archives. Aerial photo of Halifax from the North-East; the former Africville area, now the approaches of the Narrows bridge also the north end of the city, 1968-05-08, City of Halifax Police Department photograph, 102-16N-0039.1, Halifax Municipal Archives. [Africville – drinking well with boil water advisory sign], [1965], City of Halifax Police Department photograph, 102-16N-0065.H, Halifax Municipal Archives. [Africville – showing Seaview Baptist Church and muddy Campbell Road], [1965], City of Halifax Police Department photograph, 102-16N-0065.E, Halifax Municipal Archives. [Africville – from the back showing power lines, tracks, Bedford Basin, homes], [1965], City of Halifax Police Department photograph, 102-16N-0065.D, Halifax Municipal Archives.
Early history and landscapes of Africville area
Title: On the Road to Bedford Near Halifax, Nova Scotia, Winter Time
Date: March 16, 1882
Artist: Henry Ash
Image courtesy of Library and Archives Canada MIKAN no. 3028648Title: Halifax Harbour from the Beach below the Grove
Date: 1842
Artist: Alexander Cavalié Mercer
Image courtesy of Library and Archives Canada MIKAN no. 2834101Title: Halifax Harbour from near The Narrows
Date: 1840
Artist: Alexander Cavalié Mercer
Image courtesy of Library and Archives Canada MIKAN no. 2834064Title: Bedford Basin from near the Three Mile House
Date: 1837
Artist: Robert Petley
Image courtesy of Library and Archives Canada MIKAN no. 2837359Title: Bedford Basin near Halifax
Date: 1835
Artist: Robert Petley
Image courtesy of Library and Archives Canada MIKAN no. 2837294Title: View of the North Part of the Town of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Including Dockyard, the Bason Terminating the Harbour, and the Town of Dartmouth
Date: 1793
Artist: Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
Image courtesy of Library and Archives Canada MIKAN no. 2895435
Henry Ash sketch of the area around Africville, 1890s

Africville History in Maps
Image courtesy of Will Flanagan, Department of Geography, Saint Mary’s University Image courtesy of Will Flanagan, Department of Geography, Saint Mary’s University
Africville archives material, lynn jones collection
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Africville Archaeology – Introduction
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Africville Archaeology – Ceramics
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Africville Archaeology – Porcelain
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Africville archaeology – stoneware
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Africville archaeology – bottle glass fragments
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Africville Archaeology – bottle glass whole
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Africville Archaeology – ARCHITECTURAL Glass
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Africville Archaeology – clay pipes
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Africville archaeology – buttons
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Africville archaeology – coins
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Africville Archaeology – faunal material
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Africville Archaeology – marble
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Africville Archaeology – flint ballast
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Africville archaeology – bulldozer tooth
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