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1954-2004, predominant 1962-1970 (Creation)
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- Halifax Advisory Committee on Human Rights
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3 folders of textual records
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The Halifax Advisory Committee on Human Rights was a volunteer citizens' group formed in 1962. The Committee was formed at the invitation of several residents of Africville to act as an advisory committee for the interests of the people of that community and to monitor and protect their rights during the relocation of Africville by the City of Halifax in the 1960s. The Committee consisted of both black and white citizens, from both Africville and the Halifax area, including the Rev. W.P. Oliver, Buddy Day, Gus Wedderburn (chairman), Ian MacKeigan, Lloyd Shaw and Don MacLean (secretary). The committee's activities centered around the process of relocation, assuring Africville residents of their rights and that they receive assistance in asserting them. The Committee made proposals to City Council in this regard and related matters.
Custodial history
Some records were donated by Gus Wedderburn in 2006 and Donald MacLean in 2007; other records that had been donated by Donald MacLean to the provincial archives in 2005 were transferred from NSARM in 2006.
Scope and content
Fonds consists of copies of material compiled by Donald MacLean, secretary of the Halifax Advisory Committee on Human Rights, from the Committee's active years, as well as from his continuing interest in the Africville story. There is an incomplete set of committee minutes, 1962-1968, as well as correspondence, reports, interview transcripts and newsclippings. There are also the original responses to a committee-sanctioned survey of Africville residents in 1962 for the purpose of determining how long they had been in Africville, what financial settlement they expected, and where they wanted to live.
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Digital copies of the files are available.
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Responses to the 1962 survey are closed to protect personal information until 2052; however anonymized copies are available to researchers in the meantime.
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There is a list of items, compiled by Donald MacLean, included in that file.
Associated materials
Some members of this committee were also active in the Nova Scotia Human Rights Federation, whose records are held at the Public Archives of Nova Scotia. \n Dalhousie University Archives holds material from Dalhousie's Institute of Public Affairs involvement in human rights activities re. Africville.\n Library and Archives Canada has records from the Jewish Labour Committee's trips to and support of the Halifax Human Rights Advisory Committee (MG 28 V.75)