"Plaque Build-up" Commemorating the Buxton Settlement, 1950 - 2000"
Embedded in the landscape are several commemorative plaques. In South Buxton, immediately in front of St. Andrew’s Church, there stands a short cairn with a small bronze plaque that reads, “1949, In memory of Rev. Wm. King who founded Buxton Settlement, 1849, and built St. Andrew’s Church, 1859.” A few steps away from this cairn, stands a blue plaque that also commemorates the Buxton settlement. It was placed there in 1965. In North Buxton, there is a museum and a set of three plaques that designate the Buxton Settlement as a national historic site. Why are there so many commemorations to a single place and a single moment in history?
Opposition to the Founding of the Elgin Settlement
N 1829 t,,he Ohio Black Code,,,inoperative for many ears, was revived. If the act is enforced, commented a Cincinnati Negro, "we, the poor sons of Aethiopia, must take shelter where we can find it .... If we cannot find it in America, where we were born and spent all our days, we must beg it elsewhere. "• The plight of the northern free Negro was thus epitomized; and, particularly after 1850, no Negro felt free, no freedman safe, until he had escaped the reach of the Fugitive Slave Law. Just how many American Negroes fled their masters in the South or their oppressors in the North is not known, but between twenty and forty thousand of them turned their faces toward Canada, the symbol and reality of a long sought release from bondage and discrimination. Upper Canada, or Canada West, to which nearly all of these refugees went, was indeed a place of freedom. Unlike the Negro in the northern United States, the Negro in Canada knew that the law rigorously protected him in that freedom, and the very founding of the Elgin and similar settlements testified to the fact that, by and large, the Negro's faith in the province was not misplaced. The problem, however, involved more than simple legalisms and settlements; for even some Canadians responded to the presence of the Negro much as did residents of the Northern United States. The stream of Negro immigration, especially to western areas of upper Canada, created inevitable opposition. Commenting on a group of Cincinnati refugees of 1830, the African Repository-with perhaps some small axe to grind for African colonization-observed that "they are already viewed as unwelcome intruders, and neither the Government, the people, nor the climate of Canada, are favourable to their wishes? And the House of Assembly of Upper Canada, though remarking that it wished to help the fugitive, observed that "yet, the sudden introduction of a mass of Black Population, likely to continue without limitation, is a matter so dangerous to the peace and comfort of the inhabitants, that it now becomes necessary to prevent or check, by some prudent restrictions, this threatened
Implementation of Tourism Satellite Account: Assessing the Contribution of Tourism to the Croatian Economy
Compiling the indicators of tourism consumption and the output of tourism industries, Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) provides a framework for internationally harmonized measurements of direct macroeconomic contribution of tourism. Ivandic and Marusic provide a detailed methodological approach for the transfer of TSA theoretical concepts to the assessment of tourism economic contribution on the case of the Croatia. Giving that the TSA compilation is still characterized by a surprisingly wide range of ‘styles’ used, the chapter contributes to a better understanding of the issues related to measurement of direct tourism impacts. It also gives a set of baseline criteria for resource allocation within tourism policy and the further evaluation of its effectiveness.