Posted: Mar 05, 2021 2:40 PM AT | Last Updated: March 5
North Preston is one of Canada’s most historic Black communities. It is among the designated areas the Land Titles Clarification Act was intended to help.(Steve Lawrence/CBC)
Christopher Downey struggles to express how satisfying it was the day he received legal title to land that members of his family first settled more than 100 years ago. I can t put it into words how my wife and I feel, he said. It s been a personal accomplishment and it s been a long time coming.
The North Preston, N.S., resident and his wife, Christesline, fought for years to get legal title to their land, land his great-grandfather first settled on in 1913. It was a fight made necessary by systemic racism.
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