Eddie Carvery is a social activist from Africville, Nova Scotia. The small, mainly black community in Halifax was destroyed by the city in the 1960s as an "urban renewal" project, after years of neglect and poor services.[1]
Carvery started his protest on the site in 1970.[2] Carvery lived in what became known as Seaview Park on and off over a period of 25 years before making international news [3] when the G7 came to Halifax in 1995. The City of Halifax tried to evict Eddie and his brother Victor from Seaview Park.[4]
The brothers eventually moved out of the park and onto adjacent land, continuing the protest where the village school once stood. The Carverys remained protesting on the grounds of Africville as of 2010.[5] Eddie remains at his protest site behind the newly reconstructed Africville Church as of February 2012.
The Hermit of Africville, a biography of Eddie Carvery, was published by Pottersfield Press in 2010.[6]
He was featured on the 2022 podcast Africville Forever.
References
- ↑ "Africville: The Spirit Lives On". Africville Genealogy Society. Archived from the original on 2010-01-02.
- ↑ http://www.metronews.ca/halifax/local/article/297917
- ↑ Clyde H. Farnsworth (29 May 1995). "Halifax Journal: Uprooted, and Now Withered by Public Housing". The New York Times.
- ↑ Stephen Kimber (10 May 1995). "Column on the Carvery Sit In". The Daily News.
- ↑ Chad Pelley (14 July 2010). "On Halifax Favourite Jon Tattrie's New Book: The Hermit of Africville: The Life of Eddie Carvery". Archived from the original on 2010-07-25.
- ↑ "Hermit of Africville". Archived from the original on 2010-07-24. Retrieved 2010-07-15.
Additional sources
- "Eddie Carvery, Africville and the Longest Civil Rights Protest in Canadian History", Transmopolis, July 2010 (http://www.transmopolis.com/2010/07/africville/)
- "Seaview shame, suburban sprawl", The Coast newspaper, 2008 article (http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/seaview-shame-suburban-sprawl/Content?oid=993663)