African Nova Scotian Employment Lab

By collaborating with employers, intermediaries, and community we aim to create and fill 575 meaningful jobs. By targeting this critical number, we strive to address the disproportionate rates of underemployment and unemployment, where Black people in Nova Scotia are twice as likely, and African Nova Scotians are four times as likely, to face these challenges.

African Nova Scotians are a distinct People who descend from free and enslaved Black Planters, Black Loyalists, Black Refugees, Maroons and other Black people who inhabited the original 52 land-based Black communities in that part of Mi’kma’ki known as Nova Scotia