(Wikipedia) Dixon left Nova Scotia at the age of 16 to pursue a career in professional boxing in Boston ... A mural of Truro-born opera singer, Portia White, done in 2019 in Mulgrave Park.

George Dixon was born in Africville, Nova Scotia’s ... a “Carnival of Champions” at the Olympia Club in New Orleans. When Dixon beat the brakes off Jack Skelly, his white opponent, the ...

Carroll Morgan, a three-time Canadian boxing champion who was the country's ... the late coach Taylor Gordon when he returned to Nova Scotia from Munich. Gordon's son, Wayne, recalls seeing ...

KENNETCOOK, N.S. – In a soggy baseball field not far from the Bay of Fundy, more than 400 of Wyatt Sanford’s neighbours cheered Sunday as the Nova Scotia ... medal in boxing since the Summer ...

KENNETCOOK, N.S. — In a soggy baseball field not far from the Bay of Fundy, more than 400 of Wyatt Sanford’s neighbours cheered Sunday as the Nova Scotia ... medal in boxing since the Summer ...

But in Clayton's native Nova Scotia, where Black history and ... left the fight as the world featherweight champion. That bout made Dixon the first Canadian fighter of any colour to win a world boxing ...