By Canadian Press

N.S. Black community’s reunion returns with safety measures, a year after shooting

Jul 26, 2025 | 8:50 AM

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s Black community is including safety measures at a reunion of former residents of a historic community, one year after a shooting during the event.

The Africville reunion last July was marred by shots that injured five people, but organizers say the community has returned in force and is celebrating the 42nd anniversary of the four-day gathering.

President of the Africville Genealogy Society Irvine Carvery says after the violence a safety audit was carried out and as a result there is improved lighting at the National Historic Site.

The society also requested a heightened police presence and set up a system to register vehicles entering and leaving the park in the city’s north end.

The reunion is a key event in the African Nova Scotian community, as hundreds of former residents and their descendants gather to recall the Black community that was demolished at the site in the 1960s.

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Halifax’s police chief, Don MacLean, said yesterday that despite 100 search warrants and interviews with 200 people, the force has not yet been able to make an arrest related to last year’s shooting.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 26, 2025.

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