'He was a man on a mission': Eddie Carvery remembered for keeping memory of Africville alive
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Eddie Carvery, the activist who crusaded for reparations for the former residents of Africville, N.S., has died of cancer.
Carvery was born in 1946 in Africville, a Black community that stood on the shores of the Bedford Basin.
The town was bulldozed in the 1960s after decades of mistreatment and neglect from the City of Halifax to make way for industrial developments, including the MacKay Bridge.
Carvery, 79, lived in a trailer on the grounds of Africville Park for more than 50 years in protest of the destruction of the community.
Residents who had deeds to their property were compensated according to the market value of their homes, but those who didn’t, which was much of the town’s population, were given $500.
Despite multiple eviction orders, most recently in July of 2025, and the destruction of his trailers in 2019, Carvery maintained his protest. He did reduce his time at the Africville site in recent years due to health concerns, living part-time in an apartment.
'He was a man on a mission': Eddie Carvery remembered for keeping memory of Africville alive | CBC News
Eddie Carvery, the activist who lived in a trailer on the site of the former town of Africville for over 50 years, has died. Carvery used his decades-long protest to call for reparations for the former residents of the town.
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