Eddie Carvery

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Eddie Carvery is a social activist from Africville, Nova Scotia. The small, mainly black community in Halifax was destroyed by the city in the 1960s as an "urban renewal" project, after years of neglect and poor services.{{cite web|url= http://www.africville.ca/ |title=Africville: The Spirit Lives On|publisher=Africville Genealogy Society|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102114013/http://www.africville.ca/|archivedate=2010-01-02}}

Carvery started his protest on the site in 1970.http://www.metronews.ca/halifax/local/article/297917{{Dead link|date=December 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Carvery lived in what became known as Seaview Park on and off over 25 years before making international news {{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/29/world/halifax-journal-uprooted-and-now-withered-by-public-housing.html?pagewanted=1 |title=Halifax Journal: Uprooted, and Now Withered by Public Housing|author=Clyde H. Farnsworth|date=29 May 1995| work=The New York Times}} when the G7 came to Halifax in 1995. The City of Halifax tried to evict Eddie and his brother Victor from Seaview Park.{{cite news|url= http://stephenkimber.com/books/reparations/africville/column-on-the-carvery-sit-in |title=Column on the Carvery Sit In|author=Stephen Kimber|date=10 May 1995|publisher=The Daily News}}

The brothers eventually moved out of the park and onto adjacent land, continuing the protest where the village school once stood ground. The Carverys remained protesting on the grounds of Africville as of 2010.{{cite web |url=http://saltyink.com/2010/07/14/on-halifax-favourite-jon-tattries-new-book-the-hermit-of-africville-the-life-of-eddie-carvery/ |title=On Halifax Favourite Jon Tattrie's New Book: The Hermit of Africville: The Life of Eddie Carvery |author=Chad Pelley |date=14 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100725014749/http://saltyink.com/2010/07/14/on-halifax-favourite-jon-tattries-new-book-the-hermit-of-africville-the-life-of-eddie-carvery/ |archivedate=2010-07-25 }} Eddie remains at his protest site behind the newly reconstructed Africville Church as of February 2012.

The Hermit of Africville, a biography of Eddie Carvery, was published by Pottersfield Press in 2010.{{cite web |url=http://www.nimbus.ns.ca/Store/CatalogItem/tabid/904/CategoryID/191/List/1/Level/1/ProductID/5881/Default.aspx |title=Hermit of Africville |accessdate=2010-07-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100724233616/http://www.nimbus.ns.ca/Store/CatalogItem/tabid/904/CategoryID/191/List/1/Level/1/ProductID/5881/Default.aspx |archivedate=2010-07-24 }}

He was featured on the 2022 podcast Africville Forever.