| 1600-1749 |
| 1603: Samuel de Champlain exploration and founding of New France |
1608: Pierre du Gua de Monts exploration of Nova Scotia |
1749: Governor Edward Cornwallis founded the City of Halifax |
1749: British military diary explains fusion of shinny and Mikmaq hockey |
| 1750-1784 |
| November 7, 1775: John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, British Governor of Virginia, issues a proclamation of freedom for Loyalist slaves |
Ethiopian Regiment & the Battle of Great Bridge, Virginia December 9, 1775 |
September 1776: the British capture New York City |
1783: the end of the American Revolution & the first large influx of free Blacks to Canada. Colonel Stephen Blucke, Est. Birchtown |
| 1785-1799
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| 1791: establishment of Upper and Lower Canada as provinces of the British Crown |
1791: British Government offers free passage to Blacks willing to relocate to the British colony of Sierra Leone |
1793: John Graves Simcoe lobbies to have a law passed forbidding the import of slaves into Upper Canada |
1796: second-influx of Blacks, with the arrival of the Maroons from Jamaica in Halifax; Africville established |
| 1800-1824 |
| War of 1812 & mass exodus of runaway Blacks from America into the Canadian borderlands |
1815:The Year-of-the-Mice First accounts of hockey on the Northwest Arm |
1816: The Year-of-No-Summer Halifax Green Market Riots |
By 1820: the Underground Railroad, a secret network of anti-slavery, comes into existence |
| 1825-1849 |
| 1820's - 1840's: first Black Canadians begin playing early form of ice hockey in Nova Scotia |
June 9, 1844: founding of the African Baptist Church in Dartmouth, N.S. |
1848: land records show the first property to be purchased in Africville by William Brown Sr. |
The Campbell Road Church (Africville Baptist Church) established |
| 1850-1899 |
| July 29, 1870: Boxer George "Little Chocolate" Dixon born in Africville |
1892: Lord Stanley purchases trophy as annual challenge cup awarded to Canadian Amateur Champions |
1893: Henry Sylvester Williams enrolls at Dalhousie University in Halifax |
1895: Acadian Recorder Newspaper reports on the first official Black hockey league |
| 1900-1910 |
| 1900: West End Rangers played their first official game on New Year's Day |
1900: Pan-African Conference held in London, England |
1904: last year the Colored Hockey League as a major entity |
From 1901 to 1905 Mackenzie, Mann & Company worked to buy up all the independent railroads across Nova Scotia |
| 1911-1920 |
| March 25, 1911: Henry Sylvester Williams dies at age 42 |
1915: James Robinson Johnston murdered by his brother-in-law |
December 6, 1917: at 8:45 am, the Imo collides with the French munitions ship, Mont Blanc, in Halifax Harbour creating the largest man-made explosion prior to Hiroshima |
January 12, 1912: the Herald Newspaper Building, the Cragg Building & the Barnstead and the Sutherland Buildings go up in flames |
| 1921-1925 |
| 1916: WWI Black Battalion |
1921: Orphanage for Colored Children opened by James Kinney |
1921: sparse coverage of the colored teams would once again appear in the local newspapers |
1922: last recorded game of the Africville Sea- Sides (v. Halifax All-Stars) |
| 1926-1940 |
| 1929: Stock Market Crash signaling the Great Depression |
1933: Gordon T. C. Jemmott, former star and coach of the Africville Brown Bombers, became the new headmaster at the Africville School |
1939: Outbreak of World War II; Canada declares War on Germany |
October 1940: Kinney dies at age 61 |
| 1941-1954 |
| 1947: former West End Rangers star Jack Mills dies |
1953: Africville School closes |
1956: report recommending the annex of Africville land by City of Halifax |
1958: Willie O'Ree becomes first Black hockey player in the National Hockey League |
| 1955-1970 |
| 1962: Jamaica given its independence |
1968: Portia White dies at the age of 57 |
1969: City of Halifax begins to bulldoze Africville |
January 2, 1970: Aaron "Pa" Carvery last man standing at Africville |
