Welcome to Atlantic Canada’s Hidden Histories Geotour Part 2!
You’ve located another stop in this set of geocaches that are part of the Atlantic Canada’s Hidden Histories 2 GeoTour. Find the 9 geocaches which are located in Nova Scotia and earn a Geocoin.
About this location:
This area is one of the newer settlements in Nova Scotia. This settlement was created to handle the displaced population of the destroyed Africville. (Hamlyn, 2017) mentions that this area quickly became a low priority to the city of Halifax. Due to the ramped poverty and crime throughout the area, this place was eventually labeled as a “slum”. Although it was supposed to be a place that eliminated social stigmas it only would do the opposite.
The citation for Uniacke Square from Wikipedia highlights the current challenges for the Black community: gentrification. As the demographic patterns in the region indicate, Uniacke Square is now primarily non-Black, with an increasing number of White people and new Canadians. We may be witnessing another large displacement and destruction of the Black community already traumatized by the legacy of Africville.
Today, two-thirds of the residents of the Square are women, and two-thirds are under 25. The neighbourhood is highly diverse with a high concentration of African Canadians, Arab Canadians, and Indigenous people; the percent of African Canadians once accounted for the majority of the population.
The areas of Gottingen Street, Creighton Street, and Maynard Street surrounding the Square was traditionally home to a large middle-class African-Canadian population.[4] Many of them were small business owners, or working professionals. However, uncontrolled gentrification of the North End has changed the area’s demographics considerably.[5][4][6]
Uniacke Square supports a satellite police station, a parent resource centre, a small church and an office of the Salvation Army. Uniacke Square also has a community centre, The George Dixon Centre, named after the first Canadian boxing champion George Dixon, Centreline Studio a community based recording Studio and also home of the Uniacke Centre for Community Development
The unemployment rate in Uniacke Square is 26.4%.
More About the Geotour
You’ve located a stop in the ACHH Geotour, which as of Oct 21st, 2023 consists of 27 geocaches divided into two phases. Initially launched in July of 2022, this Geotour aims to highlight various diverse and sometimes relatively unknown histories in Atlantic Canada. It will continue to grow. The first 2 phases of the tour highlight Black History in Atlantic Canada. In Phase 1 there are two segments with six locations in New Brunswick, and eight locations in Nova Scotia. Each of these segments has their own geocoin and passport, the link for which is provided in relevant cache descriptions. Caches in Phase 1 start with ACHH: in their name. Caches in Phase 2 start with ACHH2: in their name. This cache is part of Phase 2.
In order to participate in the Tour, you will obtain a passport that you will take with you as you visit each location. When you find the geocache, in addition to signing the log sheet, you must sign your passport with the included passcode (under the geocache container lid at each location). Once you have a completed passport, you can submit it to receive your geocoin.
To learn more about Atlantic Canada’s Hidden Histories GeoTour, visit the website.
You can download the Nova Scotia passport: pdf.
You may pick up your Nova Scotia geocoin by making an appointment with (or mailing to) :
Kirrily Freeman
Professor, History Department
Director, Outreach and Experiential Learning, Faculty of Arts
923 Robie St,Saint Mary's University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3C4
Kirrily.Freeman@smu.ca
Alternatively you may mail your completed passport to the address above and your geocoin will be mailed to you.
Atlantic Canada’s Hidden Histories GeoTour is a collaborative project between the City of Fredericton, National Trust for Canada, the Capital Region Association of Geocachers, Saint Mary's University, and the Association of Nova Scotia Geocaching. We acknowledge that caches of this tour are placed in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people. The territory of the Mi’kmaq people are recognized in the Peace and Friendship Treaties to establish an ongoing relationship of peace, friendship and mutual respect between equal nations.
