Africentric Heritage Park

Visitors are invited to experience the park, which is situated on Vale Road in the South end of New Glasgow. The park, opened in 2000, bears the inscription “to our children” and was created to commemorate the past, focus on the present and provide a foundation for the cultural future of Nova Scotians of African descent. At the heart of the park is the pyramid-shaped design of the building, which symbolizes the pyramids of Egypt. Each side of the building represents a portion of the history and migration story of the Black community in Nova Scotia. Source: http://www.newglasgow.ca/

Viola Desmond Place of Burial

Civil Rights Figure, Activist. She was a Canadian Black Nova Scotian businesswoman who challenged racial segregation at a film theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, in 1946. She refused to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre and was convicted of a minor tax violation for the one-cent tax difference between the seat she had paid for and the seat she used. Desmond's case is one of the most publicized incidents of racial discrimination in Canadian history and helped start the modern civil rights movement in Canada. In 2010, Desmond was granted a posthumous pardon, the first to be granted in Canada. The government of Nova Scotia also apologized for prosecuting her for tax evasion, and acknowledged she was rightfully resisting racial discrimination. In 2012 Viola Desmond was honored by Canada Post with her image on a postage stamp, and on March 8, 2018 the new Canadian $10 bill with her image was introduced to the public. Desmond was also named a National Historic Person in 2018. Bio courtesy of: Wikipedia

Wallace Lucas Community Centre

Cherry Brook United Baptist Church

Cherry Brook United Church, Our mission is to demonstrate the love of God by equipping disciples to share the Gospel.

Beechville Baptist Church

We’ve seen the transformation hundreds of times - people who came to us full of doubt and uncertainty become secure in the knowledge of their rightful place in God’s great kingdom. The change may start slowly - in a Bible Study class or choir participation, perhaps - but once it begins, it picks up speed. The good works, shared experiences, time spent in prayer - all bring us closer to our highest calling. Source: Beechville Baptist Church http://www.beechvillebaptistchurch.ca/

Emmanuel Baptist Church

To Boldly Promote Authentic and Transformational Encounters with God and People! At EBC: The MEETing Place we believe that we have been called to be a safe community for all who seek to experience true relationship with God. We aim to Glorify God by Creating a Place to Meet by: Ministering to the Whole Person, Evangelizing the Lost, Equipping Members to be Ministers, and Teaching the Body of Christ. Those who call EBC: The MEETing Place home do so because of the strong leadership, unique diversity and lively atmosphere they experience here. In the first instance, our pastors lead with a strong sense of conviction, accountability and transparency. In the second, we are an intergenerational, multicultural and interdenominationally diverse body of believers who seek to embrace and accept all who seek genuine encounters with God and with his people. In the third, we consider authentically uplifting and genuine worship as a key ingredient to God meeting with us as we meet with him. Those who meet at EBC: The MEETing Place enjoy vibrant services, genuinely warm fellowship, transformative spiritual experiences and the strong sense of family as a result of genuine love between believers. The atmosphere at EBC: The MEETing Place is a friendly and welcoming one that emphasizes relationship instead of religion and promotes freedom to worship God according to the leading of God’s Holy Spirit. Everything we do is aimed at creating a place to MEET where God can meet with us as we meet with God! This is why we are wholeheartedly committed to our vision to glorify God by: Boldly Promoting Authentic and Transformational Encounters with God and People. Source: Churches in Halifax, Bedford: EBC The Meeting Place, Emmanuel Baptist Church http://ebcmeet.com/

African Bethel Cemetery

DESCRIPTION OF HISTORIC PLACE The African Bethel Cemetery was the first burial ground established in the rural, predominantly Black community of Greenville, Nova Scotia. It is located on the south side of the Greenville Road about four tenths of a kilometre west of the Annis River bridge. Municipal heritage designation applies to the entire lot and the remaining markers.

Greenville Church Cemetery

DESCRIPTION OF HISTORIC PLACE The Greenville Church Cemetery was established in 1853 when the church it surrounds was built, though there are no remaining grave markers to visibly identify it as a burial ground. It is located on Greenville Road in the rural community of Greenville, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia. Municipal heritage designation applies to the entire lot surrounding the church. HERITAGE VALUE The Greenville Church Cemetery is valued as the burial ground associated with the Greenville African Baptist Church, a municipally and provincially registered heritage property, and as the burial site of more than seventy-five of the community’s residents. The village of Greenville was originally part of a larger community called Salmon River, and was where the majority of early Black residents in Yarmouth County first settled around 1830. There is little to immediately identify this site as a cemetery, as there are no grave markers remaining as visible evidence of its existence. Any markers there may have been were probably made of wood, and have long since disappeared. This burial ground was established in 1853, when the church it surrounds was built, however there are no written records indicating how many people were buried here between 1853 and 1891 when a local undertaking firm started keeping records. Only seventy-five names are known for burials between 1891 and 1960, and it is surmised that at least twice that many residents of the community were laid to rest here. Of the seventy-five whose names are known, thirty-six were children under the age of ten years, a testimony to the high mortality rate of children in the 1800s and early 1900s. The majority of the present day residents of the community of Greenville are descendants of the people buried here. The Greenville Church Cemetery covers approximately eight-thousand square metres of land and surrounds the Greenville African Baptist Church on the west, north and east sides. It is a grass covered area with only a small sign to the west of the church and its heritage property plaque on the east side of the church building identifying it as a cemetery. Source: Registered Heritage Property files: Greenville Church Cemetery; located at the Heritage Office, 400 Main Street, Yarmouth, NS B5A 1G2 Source: http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=9290