Not if its residents have anything to say about it. From 1981, a Deep Reprint looking at how a stigmatized Nova Scotia community faced down the pressures that threatened to erase it from the map.
Preston, located on the outskirts of Dartmouth, has long been a target of urban expansion. In 1981, the community found itself at a crossroads: either succumb to the encroaching development that sought to displace its long-standing African Nova Scotian residents, or forge a path of resistance and survival.
This article revisits those tensions, documenting the voices of community leaders who refused to surrender their heritage for the sake of municipal "improvement."