As the Black Loyalists were settled in Nova Scotia, a number of seperate communities were established to settle them in. Generally located on less desirable land near a white settlement, there seems to have been a conscious policy of segregation of blacks into communities that would be out of sight but still useful as pool of cheap labour.

Birchtown

Birchtown was the largest of the Black Loyalists communities and its peak population might have had half of Nova Scotia's Black Loyalists.

Loch Lomond

Just north of Saint John, New Brunswick (then called Parrtown), Loch lomond was more or less the only place where balcks were allowed to settle in the area.

Preston

Preston has been used as as place to settle poor blacks and to some degree other poor people for hundreds of years. Located just to the west of Dartmouth, Preston has been repeatedly resettled with blacks.

Brindley Town

Located near Digby, Brindley Town has a sustasined history of balck settlement since the days of the Black Loyalists.

Little Tracadie

The only major Black Loyalist community that was not envisioned as a satellite community for the convenience of a larger white town, Little Tracadie was the only Black community that was not substantially depopulated by the Sierra Leone exodus. Most of the blacks in the area today are direct Black Loyalists descendents.

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