Globe and Mail BOOKS May 26, 2006 Black, white, past, future ROSEMARY AUBERT Reparations By Stephen Kimber HarperCollins, 402 pages, $19.95 The real Africville, Nova Scotia, was not a wholly wonderful place. It sat on the northern outskirts of a city whose parallel development outstripped it in every way. Halifax had sewers, clean water, street […]
Reparations Stephen Kimber; $19.95 cloth 0-00-200564-6, 340 pp., , HarperCollins Canada, April May 2006: Stephen Kimber’s first novel, Reparations, takes a bold step forward for Halifax fiction and Canadian literature in general by confronting the still unresolved issue of Africville’s demise. In the early 1960s, the city razed the urban waterfront neighbourhood, breaking up and […]
Legal thriller is based on history of Africville Montreal Gazette Saturday, June 3, 2006 By ANNE SUTHERLAND The story of how Halifax blacks were ousted from their homes in the 1960s is a horrific blight on the Canadian landscape, but Canadian writer Stephen Kimber has used this history as his springboard to craft a fascinating […]
Reparations is a page-turning legal thriller, a sophisticated tale fueled by power, sex, the politics of race, and an impassioned quest for justice. This is a novel that pulls no punches and effectively weaves a tale with not only a crime at its core, but also a clever and fluid history of Africville, Nova Scotia, and the expropriation of African-Nova Scotian’s waterfront land.
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Reparations Holly Gordon With his latest narrative pursuit, award-winning journalist and broadcaster Stephen Kimber brings his readers the naked story of Halifax’s doomed Africville. It was a place at the edge of the city, a place of poverty and of rudimentary facilities – a place with no future. At least, that’s what the city of […]
A 1994 profile of the former Africville resident who started the Afrciville Genealogy Society and launched the fight for recognition of the injustices done to them.
The story of Irvine’s brothers who staged a camp-in at the site of their old community to try and force the city to acjknowledge their grievances.
The local aftermath of the 2004 UN report on reparations.
A May 1991 column about the Carvery brothers’ sit-in
The city attempts to pressure the Geneaology Society. A column from March 1995.
STEPHEN KIMBER, a Professor of Journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax and co-founder of its MFA in Creative Nonfiction Program, is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He is the author of two novels and eight non-fiction books. Buy his books
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