Carleton Book Negroes and Nova Scotia Archives

Dwayne The Rock Johnson: I didn’t know anything to put there so I started researching and discovered the Black Loyalist history, according to The Chronicle Herald. Referencing census counts, birth and marriage records, Carleton Book of Negroes, regarded as the single most important document relating to the immigration of African Americans to Nova Scotia following the War of Independence by the Nova Scotia Archives, as well as other resources, Hill has traced the genealogy of Black Loyalist descendants near and far. In 1989 I gave my daughter a bible for a gift and in the front was a place to put your family genealogy. The more we kept going and the more we found out, the more it became apparent that we are one of the founding people of this nation, said Hill. People such as Hollywood superstar Dwayne The Rock Johnson, internationally acclaimed Canadian opera singers Measha Brueggergosman and the late Portia White, early 20th century boxing greats Tiger Warrington and Sam Langford, and respected Family Court Judge Corrine Sparks, who was the first African Nova Scotian to receive appointment to the judiciary and the first African Canadian female to serve on the bench, are all descendants of the more than 3,000 Black Loyalists who came to the shores of Nova Scotia between 1783 and 1785. We want to make sure our history is told. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.