The area is believed to have been named after Preston , Lancashire , England or Thomas Preston , a British army officer involved in the Boston Massacre at the beginning of the American Revolution . It was among the areas where the Crown granted lands to Black Loyalists from the Thirteen Colonies ; it had promised them freedom and resettled more than 3,000 former slaves in Nova Scotia . Reflecting its early history , Preston has the largest percentage of black people of any area in Canada ; 69.4 % of its population is black
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre
Preston, Nova Scotia