What city in Nova Scotia overtook the home community of Mildred Dixons' parents?
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Mildred Dixon Mildred Dixon (November 21, 1904 –September 18, 2001) was a dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem who became a longtime companion of composer and musician Duke Ellington, and manager of his company. She was born in Boston to parents from Africville, Nova Scotia. She became a dancer and moved to New York in the mid-1920s, where she became known as part of the dance couple, "Mildred and Henri."
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Africville Africville was a small community located on the southern shore of Bedford Basin, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. During the 20th century, the City of Halifax began to encroach on the southern shores of Bedford Basin, and gradually took over this community through municipal amalgamation. Africville was populated almost entirely by Black Nova Scotians from a wide variety of origins. Many of the first settlers were former slaves from the United States, Black Loyalists who were freed by the Crown during the American Revolutionary War and War of 1812.
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Vernon Mills, Nova Scotia Vernon Mills, Nova Scotia is a community in the Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Municipality of the District of Yarmouth Yarmouth, officially named the Municipality of the District of Yarmouth, is a district municipality in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Statistics Canada classifies the district municipality as a municipal district.
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Lower Onslow Lower Onslow is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Colchester County.
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Governor Lake, Nova Scotia Governor Lake is a rural community of the Halifax Regional Municipality in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It is named after a nearby lake.
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Indian Path, Nova Scotia Indian Path is part of the Riverport District, a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, in Lunenburg County.
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Wards Brook Wards Brook is a rural community in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.
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Big Marsh, Inverness, Nova Scotia Big Marsh ("A’ Mhaise Mhór") is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Inverness County.
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Bayhead, Nova Scotia Bayhead is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Colchester County.
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Carleton, Nova Scotia Carleton is a small community located in the Municipal District of Yarmouth, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is located approximately 26 kilometers northeast of the town of Yarmouth.
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Atkinson, Nova Scotia Atkinson is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Cumberland County.
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Bang's Falls, Nova Scotia Bang's Falls is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Region of Queens Municipality .
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Sport in Halifax, Nova Scotia Halifax, Nova Scotia, with the largest urban population in Atlantic Canada, is a major sporting centre.
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Pondville, Nova Scotia Pondville is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Richmond County on Isle Madame.
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Iona, Nova Scotia Iona (Scottish Gaelic: "Sanndraigh" ) is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Victoria County on Cape Breton Island. It is named after Iona in Scotland. Perched above the Barra Strait between the Great Bras d'Or and Piper's Cove portions of Bras d'Or Lake, Iona is the western terminus of the Barra Strait Bridge carrying Nova Scotia Route 223 across to Grand Narrows village. The Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway passes through the village, crossing the Barra Strait over the Grand Narrows Bridge on its way east to North Sydney and Sydney.
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Hubbards, Nova Scotia Hubbards is an unincorporated Canadian rural community on the South Shore of Nova Scotia.
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South Ohio, Nova Scotia South Ohio is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Municipality of the District of Yarmouth .
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Woodville, Nova Scotia Woodville is a community in Kings County of about 200 people located in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. The community is situated north of Cambridge and Waterville at the foot of the North Mountain. Centred along Route 221, Woodville has a volunteer fire department, a Baptist church, two auto body shops, a home run automotive mechanic business, and many family-run farms. It is adminsistratively part of the village of Cornwallis Square. A community centre is located in the former school, built in 1942. The former Wesley Knox United Church, built in 1921, was sold in 2006 is now a residence and artist's workshop.
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New Victoria, Nova Scotia New Victoria (2001 pop.: 1,093) is a community in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality.
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Harrietsfield, Nova Scotia The community is named after the wife of Colonel William Thompson who lived in the area in the 1780s. In 1790, Casper Gruber arrived, and nine other families by 1827. The community's population has been increasing slowly because of easy access to Halifax via the Old Sambro Road.
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Glendale, Nova Scotia Glendale (Scottish Gaelic: "Bràigh na h-Aibhneadh" ) is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Inverness County on Cape Breton Island. It is named after Glendale (Scottish Gaelic: "Gleann Dail" ) in Scotland.