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Event Series Candlelight Graveyard Tour

Candlelight Graveyard Tour

Fort Anne Fort Anne, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada

Explore one of the oldest English graveyards in Canada by candlelight with award-winning heritage interpreter, Alan Melanson. Honoured by two Prime Ministers and recipient of Nova Scotia’s top tourism award, this is one of Canada’s most popular and well-known tours. Highly recommended by the New York Times, MacLean’s Magazine, CBC-TV and Trip Advisor, come join...Read more >

Construction Traditions

Port-Royal National Historic Site 53 Historic Lane, Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia, Canada

Interact with craftspeople who will share their skill and knowledge of some of the traditional techniques used to reconstruct the Port-Royal Habitation. Enjoy demonstrations in hewing timbers, making shingles, turning wood, making handles for tools and blacksmithing. When you visit the Habitation, you will truly appreciate the architecture of this very unique structure.

Event Series Candlelight Graveyard Tour

Candlelight Graveyard Tour

Fort Anne Fort Anne, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada

Explore one of the oldest English graveyards in Canada by candlelight with award-winning heritage interpreter, Alan Melanson. Honoured by two Prime Ministers and recipient of Nova Scotia’s top tourism award, this is one of Canada’s most popular and well-known tours. Highly recommended by the New York Times, MacLean’s Magazine, CBC-TV and Trip Advisor, come join...Read more >

Canada 150 / National Historic District Tour

The Annapolis Royal Lighthouse 242 St. George Street, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada

Celebrate Canada 150 with a fun-filled journey along one of North America’s oldest thoroughfares with renowned heritage interpreter, Alan Melanson. Explore Annapolis Royal, one of Canada’s oldest settlements, and its scenic National Historic District, one of the largest in the country. From being one of the most fought-over tracts of land in the colonization of...Read more >

Event Series Candlelight Graveyard Tour

Candlelight Graveyard Tour

Fort Anne Fort Anne, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada

Explore one of the oldest English graveyards in Canada by candlelight with award-winning heritage interpreter, Alan Melanson. Honoured by two Prime Ministers and recipient of Nova Scotia’s top tourism award, this is one of Canada’s most popular and well-known tours. Highly recommended by the New York Times, MacLean’s Magazine, CBC-TV and Trip Advisor, come join...Read more >

Event Series Explore the Cradle of Acadie

Explore the Cradle of Acadie

Historic Gardens 441 St. George Street , Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada

The spotlight will be on the Acadian House and 17th century life in the Annapolis Royal area, once the Cradle of Acadie. Special tours, activities and displays will take you back in time, on the very lands that the Acadians once lived and farmed almost 400 years ago. Check our website for details.

Event Series Acadian/ Mi’kmaq Tour

Acadian/ Mi’kmaq Tour

The Annapolis Royal Lighthouse 242 St. George Street, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada

Experience Acadian / Mi’kmaw history, music, dance, food recipes, song, symbols & settlement in the land of Tewapskik and the “Cradle of Acadie”. From encampment site of the Mi’kmaq for thousands of years to the arrival of the French and birth of the Acadian culture, from the deportation to the modern renaissance movement, learn the...Read more >

Adult Lecture Series Salt Box Talks Revisited “Painting in Canada Part 1, In Celebration of Canada 150”

North Hills Museum 5065 Granville Road, Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia, Canada

We will trace the origins of painting in Canada from the early French patronage of the church in the 17th century to the English tradition of painting images of important officials, merchants and their properties. We will explore the Canadian landscape through the eyes of 18th century topographical painters, and the wonderful paintings of everyday...Read more >

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Event Series Candlelight Graveyard Tour

Candlelight Graveyard Tour

Fort Anne Fort Anne, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada

Explore one of the oldest English graveyards in Canada by candlelight with award-winning heritage interpreter, Alan Melanson. Honoured by two Prime Ministers and recipient of Nova Scotia’s top tourism award, this is one of Canada’s most popular and well-known tours. Highly recommended by the New York Times, MacLean’s Magazine, CBC-TV and Trip Advisor, come join...Read more >

Event Series Explore the Cradle of Acadie

Explore the Cradle of Acadie

Historic Gardens 441 St. George Street , Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada

The spotlight will be on the Acadian House and 17th century life in the Annapolis Royal area, once the Cradle of Acadie. Special tours, activities and displays will take you back in time, on the very lands that the Acadians once lived and farmed almost 400 years ago. Check our website for details.