It was a Literal dump

@mikearchibald744

29 күн бұрын

Yeah, they covered WHY it was a 'literal dump'. I used to dumpster dive, have to say I met a better class of people than any gated community I've worked at.

@rubydue

28 күн бұрын

@@mikearchibald744 Who is talking about gated communities and who is doing the hating, you are. What part of it was a dump don't you understand. No one recycled back in those days, compostable matter, toxic material and hardgoods all landed in that dump. It stunk, You could smell it for miles and I can't imagine what living in that hellhole must have been like. Community was shared shit to be able to tolerate it. Your fantasy about what a great life it was is just that, a fantasy.

@mikearchibald744

28 күн бұрын

@@rubydue LOL, yeah right, keep telling yourself that. Nobody said it was a great life, You personify the colonial mentality in not even being able to comprehend what the issue even is. You simply think "well, we did them a favour". WHich is the colonial mindset in a nutshell.

@rubydue

28 күн бұрын

@@mikearchibald744 You are just a plain propagandized nut! You physically weren't there, I was. Colonial this, put yourself on the bus you can afford and move where in the world you think it is better. Good luck with that!

@William-sq5ye

22 күн бұрын

@@mikearchibald744 we saved them threw the under ground railroad they should be thankful

It was not a city, it was a city dump. I went there as a child and I remember when it,frequently caught fire. I remember ship's pumping water on the dump. Wtf ever, africville existed because of the dump, You judge what happened then, by today's, standards.

@mikearchibald744

29 күн бұрын

Do you have a time machine?

@William-sq5ye

22 күн бұрын

we saved them threw the under ground railroad they should be thankful

@William-sq5ye

22 күн бұрын

@@mikearchibald744 idiot lol

@mikearchibald744

22 күн бұрын

@@William-sq5ye LOL, the underground railroad only ENDED in Canada where it was legal. And that was under the british. And YOU weren't there.

@William-sq5ye

22 күн бұрын

@@mikearchibald744 and that why theres black people in Canada, as i said they should be thankful we saved them, but no thugs and criminals living in the dump

I wish politicians would stop apologizing. 'Sorry' is just a word. What do you do with a sorry? Give the decents Seaview Park if you're really feeling bad about it.

@William-sq5ye

22 күн бұрын

we saved them threw the under ground railroad they should be thankful

It was a dump

Happens in a lot of cities. An infrastructure project vs a neighbourhood. The only difference here is black.

@r3kt4u20

Күн бұрын

More often than not they're black communities.

I grew up in Mount Uniacke just outside Halifax County but it was not until the early 90's, in my early 20's when I first learned about Africville and it was quite a shock to find out that this sort of thing happened in Nova Scotia. It was never talked about as it was swept under the rug until the 90's brought it up again. While in University, I got the chance to go assist in an Archaeological dig at the buried church. My eyes were opened that day to a spot that I had driven by with my parents most of life as we came into Halifax to shop.

@irocsilver627

Ай бұрын

Are you kidding me???? It was in plain view,caught fire many times. I remember ship's pumping water on it from the,Bedford Basin. This whole "Africville" is bs. It WAS A SLUM!!! DEAL WITH IT. NOT WITH MY TAX $ THO

@irocsilver627

Ай бұрын

And I grew up in Spryfield before moving to Mt. UNIACKE, didn't make the dump any less, a slum.

@dpcnreactions7062

Ай бұрын

@@irocsilver627 Oh I remember what Spryfield was like then, it always felt like the land that time forgot, well, the city anyway. Where did you move to in Moiunt Uniacke or Mount Manic as people from Sackville would call us.

@philmckay9973

29 күн бұрын

local liberal arts programs helped prevent this whitewashing. what happened to other black settlements still is hidden....

@philmckay9973

29 күн бұрын

@@irocsilver627 white boomer?

Every country has a dark past.

I GREW UP HANGING OUT THERE I LIVED BY THE OLD CITY PRISON, SPENT MY TIME IN AFRICVILLE..

@William-sq5ye

22 күн бұрын

you hanged out at the dump?

@jerryswallow

22 күн бұрын

@@William-sq5ye YES I DID, MY BEST FRIEND FOR MANY YEARS WAS JOE MARSMAN..

@JB-yb4wn

5 күн бұрын

And yet you never fixed that sticky caps key, such a shame.

This is the shame of Nova Scotia! I am a.Nova Scotian and had the honour of getting to know some relatives of people who were born and lived in Africville. Seeing yhis makes me weep!

@philmckay9973

29 күн бұрын

Halifax's wealthy families made their money on the slave economy of the Caribbean as well...the most respectable... white canadians did this to black canadians across this country. halifax was just one center of this racism... all the black settlements were intentionally impoverished by their white neighbours

@William-sq5ye

22 күн бұрын

we saved them threw the under ground railroad they should be thankful

Excellent video. Also the way the older women speak in the videos sounds very similar to the way my grandmother spoke. It's very strange that the regional accent/dialect from Cape Breton and Africville were so similar.

Never taught to children in the area. Our history is important.

I was born and raised in Halifax NS. This video is race baiting. We all get along very well in Halifax. Shame on this channel for stoking hate for no reason!

@captainkaboom2384

Ай бұрын

They going to make a video about how the Arabs are taking the place over now?LOL

@mikearchibald744

29 күн бұрын

I wonder if you even see the irony of personifying the very attitude you claim doesn't exist.

@philmckay9973

29 күн бұрын

say you doing give a shit....by saying u dont give a shit

@philmckay9973

29 күн бұрын

@@mikearchibald744 "he has a black friend"

@Sherrykurah

29 күн бұрын

So, reporting history as it happened is race baiting? Colour me shocked.

150 years...

Ok without sounding like discrimination.. you gotta understand that Halifax was rising as a tourist town. The city had future plans to beautify the surroundings, & improve the look of the city for future tourism to the colonial coastal communities Housing was promised as a thank you to the members of the last participants in helping build the railroads. When the last participants died , the houses ( in their minds ) didn't get passed on to the next of kin BUT was taken by the city. I'm not saying this was the proper thing to do ..but it was the sad thing that they did to get their hands on the land again. I seen the footage... houses were shacks , it was slummy. & it did look much prettier when the city cleaned it up. They were people. The city should 'f found a way to relocate them to another location but they didn't. These are the errors in our choices back then that certain people did make... I hope somehow we learn from these stories....

This was well done. Makes me sad .

Ooh the Paradise of Canada 🇨🇦

@irocsilver627

Ай бұрын

Yup, a regular,Canadian, Beverlyhills. I went to the dump as a kid. It was a shit hole

@irocsilver627

Ай бұрын

Slum dog Millionaire,

@William-sq5ye

22 күн бұрын

we saved them threw the under ground railroad they should be thankful afric ville was a literal dump with criminals and thugs

So sad..

$500 smh

Excellent work.

based

When did pimping start in Africville?

@francesbernard2445

Ай бұрын

When people like you started touring around in Africville relying on your pimps to keep your cash. Keep your cash while having handy rumors in your head to say about that too.

@powerrespect5538

Ай бұрын

What happens when group of people are undermined in every area of living activity….

@tylerfraser2096

Ай бұрын

Don’t forget the incest, amongst other shady ‘activities’. As with the indigenous narrative, the revisionist history of the woke donkeys is laughable.

@irocsilver627

Ай бұрын

Sooo, true

@ppstorm_

Ай бұрын

@@powerrespect5538 they find the most vulnerable people among themselves and exploit them obviously

We are talking about 150 people, mostly sqsuatters on City property, living in appalling cinditions. Those who had deeds were compensated. This is another Urban Myth like the Residental "graves" out west (that have yet to be found)

How about North Preston . The crime capital of NS . What malarkey this video is .

I am appalled with what was done to these human beings. How can Canadians treat any people like this. For a bilingual Canadian I am embarrassed with any leaders that treat minorities in this manner.

@rubydue

Ай бұрын

So you liked these people living in a dump, what's wrong with you? The government gave them real homes in a clean environment outside the city.

@toxicsniper79

Ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@rubydueNo, it’s because they destroyed their entire community, where people felt a connection to it and had lived there their entire lives there and liked living there despite their challenges. As much as it may not have been a perfect place to live in, a lot of people still wanted to live there, so destroying the place was not really good at all. The thing you don’t understand is that people are connected to where they live, and while sure they can move elsewhere, most people tend to stay where they are if they like it a lot. It would have been a better idea for the government to have helped improve where they lived and help give the residents better access to clean drinking water, waste facilities, schools, and really anything else they needed, but instead, the government chose to destroy it instead of redeveloping the land. Think whatever you want about the place, but they shouldn’t have destroyed it as it would have been better to improve the area instead of destroying it. Also, in Africville, while they did face discrimination from people who came by or government officials, they felt little from local residents, but after it was destroyed, they faced a lot more within the rest of Halifax. They also cut support for people who used to live there after a couple of years, which made things difficult for former residents. Although Africville had it’s problems, the people who lived there usually liked living there, even with the places problems, and you should probably provide better arguments.

@mikearchibald744

29 күн бұрын

@@rubydue I live rurally. There are LOTS of people who live in properties that city people with all their zoning laws would call a dump. I wonder how the news cycle would handle it if the government of Moncton went to the rural areas where they deemed people living in squalor and told them to get out and were going to bulldoze their houses.

@rubydue

28 күн бұрын

@@toxicsniper79 Community and friendship is something you can't touch or see, you feel it, but you can take the sentiment of community and friendship with you. If that place was viable to make it a living space, why is it still uninhabited? It was the city dump, it stunk and was over run with rats! People deserve a clean and healthy place to raise their children. Too bad you don't see the dignity in that.

@Danvie777

5 күн бұрын

@@rubydue You misjudge me, instead of sending them elsewhere, the town could have built a new residential area on the same emplacement.

Dirty of Halifax shameful

This is part of my families history,,except my family are MIKMAQ. Supposedly they lived amongst Africville....

@irocsilver627

Ай бұрын

Oh ya bring the Mic Mac into it as well,ffs

@coryskizm

Ай бұрын

@@irocsilver627 I'm not bringing this into it,, this is the blood flowing through my veins. This is what my elder family members told me.

@unimaginaryemily

Ай бұрын

@@irocsilver627 Google "Turtle Grove" if you haven't - I think that's an interesting part of the big harbour's history too

@mikearchibald744

29 күн бұрын

@@coryskizm Ignore them, there's always 'colonists' like that. Which is ironic because the weird thing is I've seen that attitude in rural areas from people who live in homes that many in cities would call 'dumps'. And who despise virtually ANY form of government.

@William-sq5ye

22 күн бұрын

most all migmak have white in them

This is such a horrible part of history! So sorry it was let to happen!

@rubydue

Ай бұрын

so you keep them in the dump

@mikearchibald744

29 күн бұрын

@@rubydue That says it all that you think there are only two options.

@rubydue

28 күн бұрын

@@mikearchibald744 Two options, stay in the toxic dump or get moved to a new home in a clean environment. Yes that's it, two options, the place is still uninhabited.

@mikearchibald744

28 күн бұрын

@@rubydue LIke I said, the fact you think there are only two options says it all.

When you have color in your skin you become the un wanted overlooked and down beaten to make you just give up

@irocsilver627

Ай бұрын

Bull Sh!t

@rubydue

Ай бұрын

They were given homes is a clean environment and they didn't have to live in a dump. Yes that was so terrible.

@JB-yb4wn

5 күн бұрын

@@rubydue Well Africville really felt like Africa, they were pining for the filth, corruption and crime that just isn't possible to get in Canada.

@r3kt4u20

Күн бұрын

​@@rubydueThey moved the dump to their clean community

A very well done video, and the kind of history that really needs to be out there, but as seen by a few commenters, many would prefer kept hidden. Canada has a VERY racist past, not as bad as the US, but bad enough that we see it rearing its head again. In southern ontario, like in New Brunswick, freed blacks were given the worst land. In New Brunswick they were given land between Saint John and Fredericton that was unworkable, still is. That early settlement first moved to Saint John, and were treated SO badly in Canada that they ultimately boarded a ship and moved to Africville in Nova Scotia, then boarded another ship and went to africa, which none of them ever had seen. So for new brunswick, they were treated bad enough that they WENT to that 'dump' outside Halifax. Ironically if you went to neighbourhoods today and talked as if there were no 'collective community' some people would flip out. Take the area around where the American recycling company is exploding metal and killing people. And they aren't even black just poor. In southern ontario what is known as the 'breadbasket' of ontario is now mennonite, but it WAS all black people. They were given land but because they had no education, couldn't even write, then they were literally bilked off their land. Somebody would come with a form, and maybe a couple bucks, and be kicked off the land the same way the irish had been. Now, obviously thats not as bad as genocide and killing people, but that doesn't make it GOOD and its something people should know because while in some ways its better, here in New Brunsick the government just bypassed a court ruling and has given mininng companies to come onto ANY unregistered land and test for minerals without even TELLING the owner. And again, in that community in Saint John those people have largely been ignored for years until somebody actually DIED at that plant owned by that american billionaire who genuinely acts like a Mr. Burns caricature.

@William-sq5ye

22 күн бұрын

they should be thankful we saved them from the underground railroad, but africville was a litteral dump with thugs and criminals

Halifax did africville like Israels doing Palestine

@grandevizier

28 күн бұрын

As bad as it was in Africville, and I have ancestors from there, what's being done to the Palestinians has barely been seen in history. It's demonic, inhuman, gleeful murder. You're right though, there is a parellel.

@JB-yb4wn

5 күн бұрын

Actually better, a lot of Canadian cities did the same thing before they got an Africville.

they should so thankful we even let them in threw the under ground railroad, there so ungrateful today