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Faith Nolan (born 1957) is a Canadian social activist, folk and jazz singer-songwriter and guitarist of mixed African, Mi'kmaq, and Irish heritage.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 29 relations: Activism, Africville, Black Canadians, Blues, Cabbagetown, Toronto, Central East Correctional Centre, Coming out, Exclaim!, Folk music, Grand Valley Institution for Women, Guitar, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Irish Canadians, Jailhouse Blues, Jazz, Lesbian, List of Canadian musicians, List of LGBT rights activists, List of women's rights activists, Lists of Canadians, Mi'kmaq, Music of Canada, Nova Scotia, Queer, The Maritimes, Toronto, Vanier Centre for Women, Working class, 2021 Polaris Music Prize.

  2. 20th-century Black Canadian women singers
  3. Black Canadian activists
  4. Canadian LGBT songwriters
  5. Canadian lesbian musicians
  6. Canadian people who self-identify as being of Mi'kmaq descent
  7. Canadian women folk guitarists

Activism

Activism (or advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good.

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Africville

Africville was a small community of predominantly African Nova Scotians located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Black Canadians

Black Canadians, also known as African Canadians (French: Canadiens Africains) or Afro-Canadians (French: Afro-Canadiens), are Canadians of full or partial sub-Saharan African descent.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.

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Cabbagetown, Toronto

Cabbagetown is a neighbourhood in central Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Central East Correctional Centre

The Central East Correctional Centre (as known colloquially as the Lindsay Superjail, or simply Lindsay; Centre correctionnel du Centre-Est) is a medium/maximum security prison located in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario.

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Coming out

Coming out of the closet, often shortened to coming out, is a metaphor used to describe LGBT people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity.

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Exclaim!

Exclaim! is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Grand Valley Institution for Women

Grand Valley Institution for Women (GVI; Établissement pour femmes Grand Valley) is a women's prison in Kitchener, Ontario, operated by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC).

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Guitar

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.

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Halifax, Nova Scotia

Halifax (Scottish-Gaelic: Halafacs or An Àrd-Bhaile) is the capital and most populous municipality of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the most populous municipality in Atlantic Canada.

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Irish Canadians

Irish Canadians (Gael-Cheanadaigh) are Canadian citizens who have full or partial Irish heritage including descendants who trace their ancestry to immigrants who originated in Ireland. Faith Nolan and Irish Canadians are Canadian people of Irish descent.

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Jailhouse Blues

Jailhouse Blues (1929) is a short musical film released by Columbia Pictures.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Lesbian

A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl.

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List of Canadian musicians

This is a list of Canadian musicians.

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List of LGBT rights activists

A list of notable LGBT rights activists who have worked to advance LGBT rights by political change, legal action or publication.

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List of women's rights activists

Notable women's rights activists are as follows, arranged alphabetically by modern country names and by the names of the persons listed.

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Lists of Canadians

This is a list of Canadians, people who are identified with Canada through residential, legal, historical, or cultural means, grouped by their area of notability.

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Mi'kmaq

The Mi'kmaq (also Mi'gmaq, Lnu, Miꞌkmaw or Miꞌgmaw) are a First Nations people of the Northeastern Woodlands, indigenous to the areas of Canada's Atlantic Provinces, primarily Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland, and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec as well as Native Americans in the northeastern region of Maine.

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Music of Canada

The music of Canada reflects the diverse influences that have shaped the country.

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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is a province of Canada, located on its east coast.

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Queer

Queer is an umbrella term for people who are not heterosexual or are not cisgender.

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The Maritimes

The Maritimes, also called the Maritime provinces, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Vanier Centre for Women

The Vanier Centre for Women (Centre Vanier pour les femmes) in Milton, Ontario is a medium correctional facility for female offenders serving sentences of less than two years or who have been arrested and are remanded in custody awaiting trial.

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Working class

The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition.

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2021 Polaris Music Prize

The 2021 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize was presented on September 27, 2021.

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See also

20th-century Black Canadian women singers

Black Canadian activists

Canadian LGBT songwriters

Canadian lesbian musicians

Canadian people who self-identify as being of Mi'kmaq descent

Canadian women folk guitarists

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Nolan