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On this pictorial page, you will see some of the highlights of a very accomplished and successful family. They arrived from England very financially secure, ready for the fox hunt, with attire for the grand balls, leaving behind the upper class life of England. Read how the rich accoutrements cost the first Mrs. Black her life. Here, also, you will find the Black who founded Methodism in Canada, as well as a government minister, clergy, lawyers, and vastly successful businessmen who rubbed shoulders with the Cyrus Eaton and Timothy Eaton family. A few were even farmers. You will see a photographic copy of the Oldsmobile owned by a Black, the first automobile licenced in Nova Scotia (in 1907); no mere Fords or Chevys for the Blacks. The Blacks fully embodied the pioneering spirit of the Chignecto Isthmus, and through marriage, mixed their blood with most of the families there: the Shipleys, Ripleys, Bacons, Coates, and many more. If you are a descendant of one of these pioneering families, you probably have some of William Black's blood and genes - email me and I will show you your connection.
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