Welcome to Atlantic Canada’s Hidden Histories Geotour Part 2!
You’ve located another stop in this set of geocaches that are part of Atlantic Canada’s Hidden Histories 2 GeoTour. Find the nine geocaches located in Nova Scotia and earn a Geocoin.
This is a mystery cache, and you must solve an easy field puzzle to determine where the cache is.
To solve this field puzzle:
Go to the posted coordinates, which will take you to a park in Uniacke Square. There is a large white sign on the wall where the coordinates take you.
Answer the following question by submitting your answer in Certitudes.
Question:
Which historical Africville resident is listed on the sign?
Go to
certitudes to validate your puzzle solution and receive the final location of the cache.
Uniacke Square:
Uniacke Square 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 for Halifax. Due to the rampant poverty and crime throughout the area, this place was eventually labelled as a “slum.” Although it was supposed to be a place that eliminated social stigmas, it would only 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 Square's residents 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 percentage of African Canadians once accounted for the majority of the population.
The areas of Gottingen Street, Creighton Street, and Maynard Street surrounding the Square were traditionally home to a large middle-class African-Canadian population. Many of them were small business owners or working professionals. However, uncontrolled gentrification of the North End has changed the area’s demographics considerably.
Uniacke Square supports a satellite police station, a parent resource centre, a small church, and an office for 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
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 highlights 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 its 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.
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 :
Fredericton Capital Region Tourism
494 Queen Street
Fredericton, NB E3B 1B6
*Note that the Visitor Information Center has moved from City Hall to 494 Queen Street.
30 coins were remaining as of June 2024*
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.
