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Day: 28 June 2022

Group wants heritage designation for house of Nova Scotia’s first Black doctor

Split image showing a historical portrait of Dr. Clement Ligoure alongside the North Street building in Halifax that housed his Amanda Private Hospital.

A local historian says the city should preserve a home where the province’s first Black physician, Dr. Clement Ligoure, operated a clinic and helped victims of the Halifax Explosion.

Stylized map of Nova Scotia filled with Pan-African colours—red, black, and green—from top to bottom, outlined in metallic gold, with the words “Black Nova Scotia” below.

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