Canada's Public Safety Minister Vic Toews will be visiting Shelburne County on Tuesday. The minister is to announce the security infrastructure improvements completed at the Birchtown Historical Site as the result of a pilot program. The Black Loyalist Heritage Society has historically been vulnerable to hate motivated crimes including arson, threats and vandalism. To increase the security and safety of our historical site, the BLHS’s applied to the Security Infrastructure Pilot Program. The approval of the application resulted in the installation of infra-red motion detection security cameras complete with DVD recorder and improved exterior lighting on all buildings at the Birchtown site.
