Negro Rock


Negro Rock (50˚35'00" 126˚22'00" SW of Minstrel I, Clio Channel, N of W Cracroft I and Johnstone Str). Named, along with nearby Bones Bay, Minstrel I and Sambo Point, after a troupe of amateur performers aboard HMS Amethyst, which carried Lord Dufferin, the gov gen, and Lady Dufferin on a cruise to Metlakatla in 1876. These entertainers put on minstrel shows, based on black cultural stereotypes, and a performance of this type was presumably staged in the vicinity for the vice-regal couple....

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