Mulgrave Park

Mulgrave Park is a residential neighbourhood in North End Halifax, Nova Scotia. It consists of local public housing along Barrington Street. It is also referred to as MGP by most residents.

Mural at 3308-3318 Barrington St.

The 351 unit development was completed in October 1960, after which Mulgrave Park won numerous awards for its quality.[1] The neighbourhood houses several large murals, visible from Barrington Street, one of Halifax's main arterial roads.[2]

In 2016, the neighbourhood was home to 680 residents. The population is 62% Black, making it the neighbourhood with the highest concentration of African Canadians on the Halifax Peninsula.[3] Many of the community members are Black Nova Scotians with roots in Africville, a former settlement located across the street from Mulgrave Park. Africville was demolished by the former City of Halifax in the late 1960s, in the name of urban renewal.[4] Nearly 20% of Mulgrave Park residents were born outside of Canada, this includes those of Sudanese, Congolese, Irish, Italian, Hungarian, French, Arab and Jamaican origins.

References
  1. "Mulgrave Park". Built Halifax. 25 February 2016.
  2. Burnside-Holmes, Mallory. "The murals of Mulgrave Park | Halifax Magazine".
  3. "Statistics Canada: 12090847 (DA)". Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  4. "Concordia professor says Halifax built on a foundation of racist urban planning". The Signal. Retrieved 12 April 2019.

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