The settlers were resilient and three quarters of the African Americans stayed on their land in Alberta long enough and developed it in order to secure their homestead patents, a higher percentage than of some other settlers groups. They built a school house in 1913 and a nondenominational church in 1914. They developed a baseball team that was widely known in the north.
The settlers were determined, and three-quarters of African Americans stayed on their land in Alberta long enough to develop it and obtain their homestead patents, a higher percentage than some other settler groups. They built a schoolhouse in 1913 and a nondenominational church in 1914. They also formed a well-known baseball team that played throughout the north.