It’s Our Time

Wanda Taylor

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ISBN: 9781771087339

It’s Our Time

Honouring the African Nova Scotian Communities of East Preston, North Preston, Lake Loon/Cherry Brook

  Author:   Wanda Taylor    
  Publisher:  Nimbus Publishing

The Black Loyalists were the first large group of people of African ancestry to settle in Halifax, in 1782. In 1796 the Jamaican Maroons arrived. Then in 1813, Black refugees fleeing the United States came. These Loyalists, Maroons, and refugees settled in the Preston area, and although some subsequently left for Sierra Leone, many stayed and established the largest community of African Nova Scotians in the province. Since then, the Preston township—comprising North Preston, East Preston, and Lake Loon/Cherry Brook—has become a web of vibrant neighbourhoods with a rich and complex history.

With care and precision, award-winning writer Wanda Lauren Taylor delves into the history and development of this area, the organizations and churches that helped bolster the population, and the struggles, successes, and personal stories of several Preston-area residents. Through interviews and archival documents, Taylor shows how a resilient group of marginalized people built a thriving community that generations of African Nova Scotians can be proud of. Contains seventy-five images, both contemporary and archival, of the people and places around Preston.

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ISBN associated with this title: 9781771087339
Item NB1444
PublisherNimbus Publishing
PublisherNimbus Publishing
Published on January 26 2021
Language eng
Pages 112
Format Paperback
Dimensions9.25(in) x 6.5(in)
Shipping weight215(g)
Status ACTIVE TITLE
Wanda Taylor is the author of several fiction and nonfiction books, including Birchtown and the Black Loyalist; The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children: the Hurt, the Hope and the Healing, and Ride or Die, a YA novel based on true events of a teen trafficked into the sex trade. Wanda has won the Women of Excellence Award for Arts and Culture. She currently resides in Toronto, Ontario.