Construction Bulletin Board

This is a temporary page which we can use to communicate to eachother the debugging work that we are doing as we attempt to create an easy to use interface and set of instructions.

Davis day, mine workers strike 1930's

Rocky jones, halifax 70's

tenant league prince edward island

radio scripts

Winnipeg strike

7 year squat

Litton bombing

pope squat

ontario days of actions

salmon wars

special diet clinics

quebec studebt strike 2004-2005

natanyahu riot

ecole polytechnique shootings

toronto bathouse raids

oka

forced sterilization

live aide - concert.

grassy narrows

aboriginal day of action blockades

Komagata Maru Incident, 1914

Work Camps under PM Bennett during the Depression

need to add (anti)copyright at bottom or creative commons. need to embed audio

starlight tours, neil stonechild could be a good story to work on

Radio Moment Logistics

Impressment
Characters: Mother, Child, Daniel, Father, Pressgang Members 2 or 3, Father 2, Narrator
Sounds: fireplace/interior of house sounds, door opening and closing(2 different ones, placing cups on the table, wind outside, scuffle noises, running footsteps, papers ruffling, putting clothes on

Africville
Characters: John, Pete (railway workers), Narrator
Sounds: Train sounds, bulldozer, building falling, seagulls, birds

Mary Ann Shadd
Characters: Two people in the streets, Narrator
Sounds: Busy street sounds, carriage, chickens, a dog barks, church bell, ringing loudly

Deskaheh
Characters: Radio Anouncer, Deskaheh, Narrator
Sounds: radio dial turning to different 1920's like stations, theme music into radio show.

Old Africville moment

The community of Africville lay on the shores of the Bedford Basin within the city limits of Halifax Nova Scotia. It was dominantly Black, rich in history, strong in spirit and steeped in controversy. It was discriminated against along lines of race and class. Without the political or social power to save its land, the people were displaced, the houses bull-dozed and the community destroyed.

The original land was purchased in the 1840s from white merchants by William brown and William Arnold¹. It began to develop like other communities in the area with good homes, strong people and its share of troubles. The community was noted for producing great singers and even a world champion boxer.

However, as time went on, Africville seemed to become a location for the infrastructure the rest of the city did not want. The community became home to a bone mill, slaughtering house, coal handling facility, a tar factory, and a tannery². In the 1850`s railroad tracks were laid through the middle of the community. In 1858 the city sewage disposal pits were moved to Africville, in 1870’s the area received the infectious disease hospital, in 1903 a Trachoma hospital was constrcuted, and then finally in the 1950’s it became the new location for the city dump. As well as becoming surrounded by toxic and dangerous industrial infrastructure, the municipality ignored requests for police services, building permits, water or sewage facilities, paved roads, snowplow services and even garbage pickup³.

Despite avid resistance and organizing from the community and outside groups, it was clear from early on that the city wanted the area to be used for industrial development. In 1915, the city responded to a prospective business interest. The city stated:

In 1962 this threat became a reality. The city reasoned that they were doing the community a favor by removing them from what they called a slum and thereby justified taking the land for industrial purposes. Family by family, the people were forced to leave their land; some received minor monetary compensation. The homes were bulldozed to the ground and if the community had ever been on the official maps, it was removed⁵.

To this day, the use of the land has been controversial. The A. Murray MacKay bridge was constructed in 1970 and eventually the area converted into a park. Later it was named a national heritage site in where a memorial has been placed for the families of Africville.

It begs the questions, what if the people had been middle class white folk? Would they have received the same response? To this day the government of Nova Scotia has not formally apologized.

Further Recources

Globe and Mail January 8th 1999

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¹pg 215 Nelson in race space and the law.)
²Pg 90 clairmont, Africville ).
³pg 42, 43 spirit of africville)
⁴pg 43 spirit of africville)
⁵pg globe and mail feb 15th 1992)

-I have added this Construction Bulletin Board Section -I have fixed the Categories so that they all now show the side bar when you click on them to see their content index. Therefore, a homepage button is accessible at all times. -I have added two ready to edit moments to each category -I think that I have clarified the posting instrucitons -rewrote homepg date: May 10th, author: freewheel