In 2015 Birchtown's Black Loyalist Heritage Centre and museum was moved to its shiny new facility 7km outside town, on the site of what was Canada's largest free African settlement in the 1780s. The museum offers an insight into this largely untold Canadian story.
Black Loyalist Heritage Centre
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