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Saint John group working to honour first Canadian-born Black lawyer


 
SAINT JOHN, N.B.
The legacy of Abraham Walker deserves to be celebrated says a group working to do just that.
Amateur historian Peter Little places a flag alongside a small wooden stake in the Church of England Cemetery, marking the spot he believes to be the final resting place of Walker.
Years ago, a man named Lennox Bagell took it upon himself to dig out all the known burials for this graveyard, and along with the burials was a map of all the burial plots, Little said. And Abraham Walker s family plot is on there.
The grandson of runaway slaves from Virginia, Walker was born in 1851 in Greenwich Parish, New Brunswick and would become the first Canadian-born Black lawyer. ....

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