The Father John Angus Rankin Cultural Centre is located in the former Glendale Glebe house and is so named after a Parish Priest who spent 32 years in the parish, and who played an instrumental role in the preservation ...

A visit to the Fortress of Louisbourg — the largest reconstructed 18th-century French fortified town in North America — is a series of experiences that set a mood. Ramparts, streets, households and interpreters help to c ...

The Gaelic College of Celtic Arts and Crafts, the only institution of its kind in North America, has gained an international reputation for helping maintain and preserve Gaelic language and culture. Students travel to C ...

The Highland Village is a living history museum and folk life centre that celebrates the Gaelic experience in Nova Scotia. On a 43-acre hillside overlooking the world-renouned Bras d'Or Lakes, Nova Scotia's rich ...

Established in the former Canadian National Railway Station (1901), the Museum's purpose is to promote, conserve, research, communicate, and exhibit history, heritage, and local culture to the community and visitors. Ext ...

Les Trois Pignons, a cultural and information centre is a reflection of the desire in the community to not only preserve the past but to move into the future with Acadian culture intact.Dr. Elizabeth LeFort, "Canada ...

Wallace R. MacAskill (1890-1956) has been called the world's best marine photographer. His photos portray the changing majesty of Nova Scotia landscape and the seas along its rocky coast, through all seasons and in all w ...

This national historic site of Canada honours Marconi's role in the development of today's network of global communications. In 1902, the first official wireless message was sent from this site across the Atlantic Ocean ...

Municipality of Victoria County Archives Victoria County was created in 1851 by a special act in the British Parliament. The final reading and passing of the act came about in April of 1851. Prior to that time, what is ...

The Orangedale Station Railway Museum, built in 1886, displays memborabilia and railway cars from that era to the recent history.  The station was constructed by the Intercolonial Railway in 1886. In 1922 Canadian N ...