Prominent members of Nova Scotia’s Black community are supporting a bid to protect the Halifax home and clinic of the late Clement Ligoure, the province’s first Black doctor and an unsung hero of the 1917 Halifax Explosion.
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“He understood that he had a role as a leader in the Black community. He was outstanding on many levels – personally, professionally, locally and nationally.” “The historical contributions of Dr. Ligoure are generally unknown by the public, including many Black African Nova Scotians,” Brown Ross wrote in her letter, noting that the doctor’s many successes came despite deeply embedded systemic racism at the turn of the century.
“Dr. Ligoure’s efforts are exemplified during the 1917 Halifax Explosion in treating the injured in the city, which is an example … of the lost history of Halifax,” Brown Ross wrote. The decision “was done to make way for urban renewal … coupled with purposefully entrenching advantages of the well-connected and wealthy,” Brown Ross wrote. “Please don’t be coerced in repeating yet another historic erasure of a segment of Black African history in Halifax.”
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