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The Highland Village Museum / Baile nan Gàidheal / An Clachan Gàidhealaich is an outdoor living history museum dedicated to Nova Scotia’s Gaelic folk-life, culture, and language. Highland Village is located in Iona, Nova Scotia, Canada, on 43 acres of natural landscape overlooking the Bras d'Or Lake in Central Cape Breton. [1]
Iona (Scottish Gaelic: Sanndraigh) is an unincorporated place in the Municipality of the County of Victoria, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is named after Iona in Scotland. It is at the western end of the Barra Strait Bridge, opposite Grand Narrows. Iona was settled by Gaelic speaking immigrants from the Isle of Barra in 1802.
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The Nova Scotia Highland Village offers a bilingual interpretation site, presenting Gaelic and English interpretation for visitors and offering programmes for the local community members and the general public. The Gaelic College in St. Anns offers Gaelic immersion weekends, weeks and summer programs.
However, there has been a resurgence of the Gaelic language and culture promulgated through a local Feis an Eilein (Festival of the Island) and Highland Village Museum , a Provincial Nova Scotia Living Museum in nearby Iona. The Gaelic language is now being taught to children attending the Rankin School of the Narrows.
A village is a type of community in the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia that has a commission established under the Municipal Government Act for the purpose of providing municipal services to a defined area within a larger county or district municipality. [1] Nova Scotia has 21 villages. [2]
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Fortress of Louisbourg, Louisbourg, Nova Scotia; Fort William Historical Park, Thunder Bay, Ontario; Fort York, Toronto, Ontario; Greater Sudbury Heritage Museums; Halifax Citadel National Historic Site of Canada (Citadel Hill), Halifax, Nova Scotia; Highland Village Museum, Iona, Nova Scotia; Heritage Park Historical Village, Calgary, Alberta