The dataset provides the predominate and traditional family names of African Nova Scotians in 6 regions in Nova Scotia. The regions consist of Halifax Metro, South Shore and Yarmouth and Acadian Shore, Bay of Fundy and Annapolis Valley, Northumberland Shore, Eastern Shore and Cape Breton Island. Within all these regions you find 48+ traditional African Nova Scotian communities. The dataset will also provide the communities you can find in each of the six regions.

In honour of African Heritage Month, the Nova Scotia Archives is pleased to present a digital version of the Nominal Roll of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men, No. 2 Construction Battalion (March 1917), the only battalion of Black soldiers raised in Canada during the First World War. Additional background information available at http://novascotia.ca/archives/2construction/.