Virtual Heritage Fair Workshops

seaview baptist Church easter service
Image: Rear view of Seaview African United Baptist Church, with Africville houses and laundry flapping in the breeze in the foreground.
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. 16
Man 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. 16
Participants 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. 16
Woman, 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. 16
Africville 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. 16
Two 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
Images courtesy of Nova Scotia Archives
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.
Images courtesy of 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. 3028648
Title: Halifax Harbour from the Beach below the Grove
Date: 1842
Artist: Alexander Cavalié Mercer
Image courtesy of Library and Archives Canada MIKAN no. 2834101
Title: Halifax Harbour from near The Narrows
Date: 1840
Artist: Alexander Cavalié Mercer
Image courtesy of Library and Archives Canada MIKAN no. 2834064
Title: Bedford Basin from near the Three Mile House
Date: 1837
Artist: Robert Petley
Image courtesy of Library and Archives Canada MIKAN no. 2837359
Title: Bedford Basin near Halifax
Date: 1835
Artist: Robert Petley
Image courtesy of Library and Archives Canada MIKAN no. 2837294
Title: 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
Images courtesy of Library and Archives Canada
Henry Ash sketch of the area around Africville, 1890s
Henry Ash sketch of the area around Africville, 1890s. Photo courtesy of Bill Burns.
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
Images courtesy of Will Flanagan, Department of Geography, Saint Mary’s University.
Africville archives material, lynn jones collection
Image from the Lynn Jones collection, courtesy of SMU Archives.
Image from the Lynn Jones collection, courtesy of SMU Archives.
Image from the Lynn Jones collection, courtesy of SMU Archives.
Image from the Lynn Jones collection, courtesy of SMU Archives.
Image from the Lynn Jones collection, courtesy of SMU Archives.
Image from the Lynn Jones collection, courtesy of SMU Archives.
Image from the Lynn Jones collection, courtesy of SMU Archives.
Image from the Lynn Jones collection, courtesy of SMU Archives.
Images from the Lynn Jones collection, courtesy of SMU Archives.
Africville Archaeology – Introduction
Images courtesy of Nova Scotia Archives, Bob Brooks Photographic Portraits of Africville in the 1960s, and Nova Scotia Museum, Curator of Archaeology, Catherine Cottreau-Robins.

Editing and transcription of audio courtesy of Ania Swiatoniowski, Department of Anthropology, Saint Mary’s University. Transcript of audio available here
Africville Archaeology – Ceramics
Image courtesy of Vanessa Smith, Nova Scotia Museum.

Editing and transcription of audio courtesy of Ania Swiatoniowski, Department of Anthropology, Saint Mary’s University. Transcript of audio available here
Africville Archaeology – Porcelain
Image courtesy of Vanessa Smith, Nova Scotia Museum.

Editing and transcription of audio courtesy of Ania Swiatoniowski, Department of Anthropology, Saint Mary’s University. Transcript of audio available here
Africville archaeology – stoneware
Image courtesy of Vanessa Smith, Nova Scotia Museum.

Editing and transcription of audio courtesy of Ania Swiatoniowski, Department of Anthropology, Saint Mary’s University. Transcript of audio available here
Africville archaeology – bottle glass fragments
Image courtesy of Vanessa Smith, Nova Scotia Museum.

Editing and transcription of audio courtesy of Ania Swiatoniowski, Department of Anthropology, Saint Mary’s University. Transcript of audio available here
Africville Archaeology – bottle glass whole
Image courtesy of Vanessa Smith, Nova Scotia Museum.

Editing and transcription of audio courtesy of Ania Swiatoniowski, Department of Anthropology, Saint Mary’s University. Transcript of audio available here
Africville Archaeology – ARCHITECTURAL Glass
Image courtesy of Vanessa Smith, Nova Scotia Museum.

Editing and transcription of audio courtesy of Ania Swiatoniowski, Department of Anthropology, Saint Mary’s University. Transcript of audio available here
Africville Archaeology – clay pipes
Image courtesy of Vanessa Smith, Nova Scotia Museum.

Editing and transcription of audio courtesy of Ania Swiatoniowski, Department of Anthropology, Saint Mary’s University. Transcript of audio available here
Africville archaeology – buttons
Image courtesy of Vanessa Smith, Nova Scotia Museum.

Editing and transcription of audio courtesy of Ania Swiatoniowski, Department of Anthropology, Saint Mary’s University. Transcript of audio available here
Africville archaeology – coins
Image courtesy of Vanessa Smith, Nova Scotia Museum.

Editing and transcription of audio courtesy of Ania Swiatoniowski, Department of Anthropology, Saint Mary’s University. Transcript of audio available here
Africville Archaeology – faunal material
Image courtesy of Vanessa Smith, Nova Scotia Museum.

Editing and transcription of audio courtesy of Ania Swiatoniowski, Department of Anthropology, Saint Mary’s University. Transcript of audio available here
Africville Archaeology – marble
Image courtesy of Vanessa Smith, Nova Scotia Museum.

Editing and transcription of audio courtesy of Ania Swiatoniowski, Department of Anthropology, Saint Mary’s University. Transcript of audio available here
Africville Archaeology – flint ballast
Image courtesy of Vanessa Smith, Nova Scotia Museum.

Editing and transcription of audio courtesy of Ania Swiatoniowski, Department of Anthropology, Saint Mary’s University. Transcript of audio available here
Africville archaeology – bulldozer tooth
Image courtesy of Vanessa Smith, Nova Scotia Museum.

Editing and transcription of audio courtesy of Ania Swiatoniowski, Department of Anthropology, Saint Mary’s University. Transcript of audio available here

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