Canada was the final point of arrival for those on the Underground Railroad, I suspect by 1920 there were quite a number of blacks there.  Mississippi State has a genealogy site for descendants of slaves that lists the number of cemeteries which are their final resting place.
>
> Katie Holland
> Norfolk Native with one Nova Scotian ancestry

In a message dated 9/24/2005 6:23:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Westview <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>I know many people like to bash Ancestry.com, but I've always been a big defender of their on-line census images despite their terrible transcriptions and indexing.  That said, I have to share this with the list:
>on the 1920 census for Charlotte County, VA many of the people gave their
>place of birth as "Prince Edward" -- that's Prince Edward County, Virginia,
>on the northern edge of Charlotte.  In his/her brilliance, the Ancestry
>transcriber interpreted this as "Prince Edward Island" and has put all these
> people as having been born in Nova Scotia!  Dozens and dozens of them!  Who
>knew Charlotte was so full of black Canadians in 1920?!  This would be funny
>if it wasn't so darn pitiful.
>
>Please don't start another round of  bashing Ancestry.com -- I just thought
>you all might like to share my amazement.
>
>Kathy
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