[LINK] "Descendants of black loyalists seeking help to gain land title"

[rfmcdonald]

Oh, my Canada. From MacLean's, via the Canadian Press:

Residents of a black community in Nova Scotia say they’re hoping for progress this week in gaining title to their land, 200 years after their ancestors were handed rocky plots without clear ownership.

The Nova Scotia government provided land to black loyalists in the 1800s, but the Crown didn’t provide land titles – though it did for white settlers.

Dwight Adams, a volunteer with a community group in the North Preston area, says that up to one third of residents in the community of about 3,700 people still don’t have title to the land.

“We don’t want to continue paying taxes and find out down the road we don’t even have a property to pass on,” he said during an interview.

Journalism students at the Nova Scotia Community College released an online documentary Monday depicting how a government-funded process to gain title in the 1960s lapsed.