History of Nova Scotia

The '''Mi'kmaq ( , ; singular: Mi'kmaw, also L'nuk and formerly Micmac''') are an Indigenous group of people of the Northeastern Woodlands, native to the areas of Canada's Atlantic Provinces, primarily Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland, and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec as well as Native Americans in the northeastern region of Maine. The traditional national territory of the Mi'kmaq is named Mi'kma'ki (or Mi'gma'gi); it is one of the five confederated Wabanaki (or Dawnland) countries.

Africans and their descendants who liberated themselves from enslavement and formed independent settlements.

Black Canadians descended from American slaves or freemen

aspect of history

Acadia (; ) was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which included parts of what are now the Maritime provinces and the Gaspé Peninsula in Eastern Canada, and the U.S. state of Maine to the Kennebec River. Settlers primarily came from what is now known as Nouvelle-Aquitaine, a southwestern region of France, specifically from Poitou-Charentes, the Aquitaine region, as well as Poitou and Anjou. The territory was originally inhabited by various First Nations of the Wabanaki Confederacy who referred to the region as Dawnland.