A year-round museum that focuses on the social and natural histories of Cape Breton County through exhibitions (both in-house and traveling) and public programming. Lectures, demonstrations, and 'hands-on' activi ...

Constructed in 1787, Cossit House is Sydney’s oldest home. Heritage interpreters in period costume welcome you at this restored one-and-a-half storey house, believed to be the oldest surviving house in Sydney. Buil ...

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 aim of this project is to restore the Old Town Hall in Glace Bay to its former glory and establish a fully operational heritage museum. The project has a time line with the 100th birthday since Glace Bay was establis ...

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 ...

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 ...