Birchtown, Nova Scotia’s Black Loyalist Landing
Birchtown, on Shelburne Harbour, was the site of the first and largest free black settlement in Canada.
The Black Loyalist Heritage Society Museum, in an old schoolhouse, commemorates the Black Loyalists who arrived here in the 1780s. A larger Black Loyalist Heritage Center is under construction.
Descendants of these former slaves can research their genealogy here.
copper bracelets from Africa that fetched as high a price as a slave, Black Loyalist Heritage Society Museum, Birchtown, Nova Scotia
This site also includes the Black Burial grounds, Heritage Wallking Trail, and St. Paul’s Anglican Church.
