Junior Field Trip: Africville Biodiversity Day
Sep 21, 2025
In this junior fieldtrip, we celebrated Africville’s unique, natural heritage and vibrant history through outdoor exploration and real-world citizen science, investigating different habitats, crafting cyanotype art, making seed bombs, and more!
Africville Christmas Tree Lighting and UNESCO Announcement
Dec 1, 2024
Africville receives historic United Nations designation
Oct 11, 2024
The Black Nova Scotia community of Africville was already a national historic site, but as the CBC’s Gareth Hampshire reports, it is now recognized as Canada’s first UNESCO Place of History and Memory linked to enslavement.
2024 Events & Activities
2024
Here’s what we accomplished together in 2024. A snapshot of events, honors, and powerful moments that shaped the year:
- Bernice Arsenault, Beatrice Wilkins, Juanita Peters, and Percy Paris receive the King Charles III Coronation Medal
- Judging at our 2024 Africville Museum Scarecrow Contest
- Africville receives UNESCO designation
- Former residents Bernice Arsenault and Beatrice Wilkins with Executive Director Juanita Peters
- 2024 Africville Museum Scholarship Recipient
- Descendant screening with Dr. Kern Jackson at the Black Cultural Centre – June 26, 2024
- SJAMBOREE – June 2024
- Africville Shoreline Cleanup with Halifax Ocean Week, Mind Your Plastic, Torpedo Rays, and Sustainable Oceans Conference – June 9, 2024
Africville’s 40th Reunion
July 2023
Bette Skinner and Beatrice Wilkins talk about the upcoming 40th Africville Reunion on CTV Morning Live Atlantic. This clip aired on February 1, 2023, CTV News.