Being forced to leave my home in Africville was hard. But 60 years later, I feel a different loss

Paula Grant-Smith was forced to leave her childhood home in Africville when she was only 15. She shares what she grieved then — and how that loss has changed in the decades since.

Being forced to leave my home in Africville was hard. But 60 years later, I feel a different loss
An illustration of a woman sitting on a park bench while a boy runs through a grassy field. Inside the woman’s thought bubble, she imagines the neighbourhood that once stood there.

Paula Grant-Smith was forced to leave her childhood home in Africville when she was only 15. She shares what she grieved then — and how that loss has changed in the decades since.