Retreat for BIPOC community planned for Birchtown
Posted: Feb 19, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: February 19 The organizers behind Buy Black Birchtown are working to create a retreat and learning centre that will be open for bookings this summer.(Jessika Hepburn) In Shelburne County, a few minutes from the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre, sits three hectares of waterfront woodland set to become a retreat for Black, Indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC). The area was once home to Nova Scotia's largest settlement of Black Loyalists, who fled north in the late 1700s with the promise of refuge, and instead faced racism and poor living con...
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