Sawyer Carnegie is a second year MA Candidate in the Atlantic Canada Studies program at Saint Mary’s University. She completed her BA at Acadia University in 2017 where she double majored in English/Gender Studies. At Acadia, working under Dr. Claudine Bonner, she became interested in African Nova Scotian newspapers. Sawyer was born and raised in London, Ontario and has ancestral ties to Buxton, one of the first free Black settlements in Canada. She currently resides in Kjipuktuk, on the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq or L’nu people.
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Join us Wed. Jan. 20 @ 7pm for our public lecture, 'The History of the African Nova Scotian Press Tradition and its Relationship to Black Activism in NS, 1946-90,' delivered by Ms. Sawyer Carnegie, MA Candidate @ACST_SMU @smuhalifax. All welcome! Link: rnshs.ca/?cat=27 pic.twitter.com/s8aKHynqav
Season's Greetings from the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society. We're pleased to announce our upcoming public lecture series for Winter & Spring 2021, now available at rnshs.ca/?cat=27. Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, and wishing you all a healthy and Happy New Year! pic.twitter.com/1vVA3oG4n9