Tantramar Deputy Mayor Greg Martin lives in Mount Whatley, just on the other side of the TransCanada highway from Aulac, in the place he grew up and where his family settled generations ago.
Back then the community was called Green Hill, and at one point in history it was a growing Black community, the biggest in the region between Amherst and Dorchester, what one researcher called the “locus of Black life” in the area.
CHMA gets hyper-local with Black History Month, and bring stories of Green Hill from Martin, and from a Mount Allison University archives project called Tracing the Black Presence in Nineteenth Century Westmorland, New Brunswick, by Dr. Jennifer Harris.
