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Africville, Nova Scotia

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While our information shows that the community of Africville is historic,<1> we want to be sure that it has a presence on our website. As we gather information about Africville, we'll be sure to add our findings.

Africville was founded in in the 1840's and was evicted in in the late 1960's.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Africville is near sea level<2>.

Time Zone: The area where Africville was located is in the Atlantic Time Zone (AST/ADT) and observes daylight saving time.

We searched for American and Canadian communities that also have the name of Africville, but it seems to be unique to this community.

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

 Community DirectionDistance<3>
 Bedford   NW6 mi [9.66 km]
 Brookside   SW9 mi [14.48 km]
 Eastern Passage   E6 mi [9.66 km]
 Harrietsfield   S5 mi [8.05 km]
 Herring Cove   S5 mi [8.05 km]
 Hubley   W8 mi [12.87 km]

To learn more about neighboring communities, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Africville.




Search for Local Businesses

We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities. Since Africville no longer exists, the following searches are actually centered on the nearby community of Bridgewater. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

Lodging     Gas Stations     Banks              
Bed & Breakfast     Truck Stops     Real Estate    
Campgrounds      Rentals    
Restaurants     Auto Repair      
 RV Repair     Churches    
Food/Groceries        
Pharmacy     Auto Parts     Libraries    
  RV Parts     Schools    
Attractions     Motorcycle Parts     Government Offices    
     
Fishing/Hunting     Hospitals      
Hiking/Camping     Doctors      
  Dentists      
Other...     Veterinarians      

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).



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The following websites contain collections of photos taken around Africville:

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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Africville? Please visit the Map Page for Africville.


Footnotes

<1>We use the term 'historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable and we would like to be accurate. If you can provide us with more specific information about Africville, please let us know so that we can make corrections.

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<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Africville - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others.

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<3>Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Africville and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance.

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