Guest Presenter: Andrea Davis, Executive Director, Black Loyalist Heritage Centre
Tuesday Night Talk
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Andrea Davis, Executive Director of the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre is our special guest at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic for tonight’s Tuesday Night Talk. February is African Heritage Month, with the 2024 theme: Our Smiles, Our Joy, Our Resilience.
Andrea will discuss the history of the arrival of the Black Loyalists landing in Birchtown in 1783, race riots of 1784 and the story of the Black Loyalist Heritage Society.
Andrea is a Nova Scotia born of Black Loyalist descent, with ancestral ties and relationships within the communities of Birchtown, Shelburne and Black communities throughout Nova Scotia. Andrea understands the Black Loyalist Heritage Society is committed to discover, interpret, promote and safeguard the history of Black Loyalists and their descendants, and to the advancement of universal recognition of Black Loyalists as a nascent Canadian heritage community. She is a descendant of the entries of the Book of Negroes.
