CHAMPION BOXER & BLACK LOYALIST DESCENDANT
Samuel 'Sam ' Edgar Langford has been called the best boxer of his time. He was born on 4 March 1886 in Weymouth Falls , Digby County, Nova Scotia, and descended from a Black Loyalist. He went to the United States as a young person where he became a champion boxer in Boston, Massachusetts. Racial discrimination denied him a shot at many fights but he was crowned the World Colored Heavyweight Champion a record five times between 1910 and 1918. Jack Dempsey, who was World Heavyweight Champion from 1919 to 1926, said Sam Langford was the best fighter we ever had . In 1955, Langford was made a member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame and his story is being told in his birthplace county of Digby. Sam Langford Information Board In 2025, at the Digby Big Stop Restaurant , on Highway 303 coming into Digby, off Highway 101, on the wall was installed an information board describing the life of Sam Langford. It is one of many boards about people that are included in a...