History

Major Influx Timeline

• Pre Loyalists
• 1606: Matthew de Costa, Interpreter with Samuel de Champlain
• 1713-1760: Enslaved persons owned by French inhabitants at Louisbourg
• 1750's: 14 freed Blacks in Halifax
• Enslaved persons bought and sold in Halifax
• 1789 - Black Loyalists
• 1796 - Trelawny Maroons
• 1813 - Black Refugees
• 1890's - Late comers (miners working in Cape Breton)