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website, local history, Nova Scotia Museum's clock and pocket watch collection, art gallery, 1940s general store and early 20th century schoolroom displays, operated by the Annapolis Valley Historical Society Anne Murray Centre: Springhill: Cumberland: Fundy Shore: Biographical: Life of singer Anne Murray: Antigonish Heritage Museum: Antigonish ...
Antigonish (/ ˌ æ n t ɪ ɡ ə ˈ n ɪ ʃ / AN-tig-ə-NISH; [2] Canadian Gaelic: Am Baile Mòr [am ˈpalə ˈmuːɾ]) is a town in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, Canada.The town is home to St. Francis Xavier University and the oldest continuous Highland games outside Scotland.
Name Address Coordinates Government recognition (CRHP №) Image Antigonish County Court House National Historic Site of Canada 170 Main Street Antigonish NS : Federal () ...
Timothy Hierlihy Monument, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Timothy Hierlihy (Heirlehy, Hirolyhy, Hierlehey) (1734–1797) was a British officer who protected the British coal mines at Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia from attacks by American privateers. He also was the first British settler of Antigonish, known as the "founder of Antigonish."
Pomquet (/ ˈ p ɒ m k ɛ t /, French:, locally) is a small Acadian village in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Pomquet is home to approximately 900 inhabitants, mostly of Acadian ancestry. Many others visit and decide to make Pomquet their home for its beauty, sense of community, and connection to land and water.
Andrew John Bayly Johnston is a Canadian historian, novelist and museum writer. He is the author of six novels of historical fiction as well as sixteen books (and over 100 articles) on the History of Atlantic Canada. [2] Johnston is originally from Truro, Nova Scotia and currently lives in Halifax. [3]
The museum also features displays relating to Bell's work with in the field of deaf education and how it led to the invention of the telephone. The Alexander Graham Bell Historic Site was designed by Canadian government architect O. Howard Leicester, R.I.B.A.
The English word museum comes from Latin, and is pluralized as museums (or rarely, musea).It is originally from the Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (), which denotes a place or temple dedicated to the muses (the patron divinities in Greek mythology of the arts), and hence was a building set apart for study and the arts, [1] especially the Musaeum (institute) for philosophy and research at ...