Sights in Nova Scotia
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St Patrick's Church Museum
St Patrick's Church Museum is the oldest Catholic church on Cape Breton Island.
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Churches
St George's Round Church was built in 1800 and is a rare circular Palladian church with a main rotunda 18m in diameter. Tours are by arrangement. Tours of the 1756 Little Dutch Church, the second-oldest building in Halifax, can also be arranged through St George's. The Cornwallis St Baptist Church has been serving African Nova Scotians since the 1830s. Walk by on Sunday morning and hear the gospel music overflow its walls.
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Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Practical Yarmouth is the unexpected home to the refreshingly cosmopolitan Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. The new three-story building has well-selected works from mostly Maritime artists.
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Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens
Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens covers a rambling 6.5 hectares with various themed gardens such as an Acadian kitchen garden one might have seen in the late 1600s and an innovative modern one. Munch on blueberries, ogle the vegetables and look for frogs. The Secret Garden Café offers lunches and German-style baked goods.
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Agriculture Research Station
At the eastern end of town, the Agriculture Research Station includes a museum on the area's farming history and the apple industry in particular. Guided museum tours are offered during summer.
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Admiral Digby Museum
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Yarmouth Light
Yarmouth Light is at the end of Cape Forchu, a left on Hwy 304 from Main St. The lighthouse affords spectacular views and there's a tearoom below. Stop at Stanley Lobster Pound, where you can get a fresh-cooked lobster at market-value price to take and eat on the beach.
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Yarmouth County Museum
This museum, in a former church, contains five period rooms related to the sea. A regular single admission ticket (adult/student $3/0.50) includes Pelton-Fuller House next door, which is filled with period artwork, glassware and furniture.
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Waterfront Park
Waterfront Park offers a stunning view of the tidal mudflats, Minas Basin and the red cliffs of Cape Blomidon. Displays explain the tides, dikes, flora and fauna, and history of the area. This is an easy spot to start a walk or cycle on top of the dikes.
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Victoria Park
Escape Truro's busy streets at Victoria Park, 400 hectares of green space in the very center of town, including a deep gorge and two waterfalls. The park attracts dozens of bird species.
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Titanic Burial Grounds
When the Titanic sank, the bodies not buried at sea were brought to Halifax. Today there are 19 graves at Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery , 10 in the Baron de Hirsch Jewish Cemetery at the north end of Windsor St, and 121 in the adjacent Fairview Lawn Cemetery; 40 graves are still unidentified. J Dawson, whose name was the basis for Leonardo DiCaprio's character in the film Titanic, is at Fairview Cemetery.
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Tidal Power Project
A hydroelectric prototype at the Annapolis River Causeway, Tidal Power has been harnessing power from the Bay of Fundy tides since 1984. An interpretive center includes models, exhibits and a video.
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St Ninian's Cathedral
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St Mary's Cathedral Basilica
You can't miss this cathedral which purportedly has the largest free-standing spire in North America.
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St Francis Xavier University
The attractive campus of 125-year-old St Francis Xavier University is behind the Romanesque St Ninian's Cathedral. The Hall of the Clans is on the 3rd floor of the old wing of the Angus L MacDonald Library, just beyond the St Ninian's Cathedral parking lot. In the hall, crests of all the Scottish clans that settled this area are displayed. Those clans gather each July for the Antigonish Highland Games.
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Sherman Hines Museum of Photography
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Rossignol Cultural Centre
Local character Sherman Hines' most fabulous endeavor is a must-see for anyone who enjoys the offbeat. There are lifelike halls of taxidermy animals, cases of gorgeous aboriginal beadwork, walls of Hines' beautiful photography (including his Mongolian adventures) and a room dedicated to outhouses around the world. If you love it so much you don't want to leave, an authentic Mongolian yurt (with en-suite bathroom) is for rent adjacent to the museum for a $100 per night donation. Admission to the museum includes entry to the Sherman Hines Museum of Photography.
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Randall House Museum
Randall House Museum relates the history of the New England planters and colonists who replaced the expelled Acadians.
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Queen's County Museum
This museum has First Nations artifacts and more materials relating to town history as well as some writings by early citizens.
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Port Royal National Historic Site
Some 14km northwest of Annapolis Royal, Port Royal National Historic Site is the actual location of the first permanent European settlement north of Florida. The site is a replica of de Champlain's 1605 fur-trading habitation, where costumed workers help tell the story of this early settlement.
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Perkins House Museum
Perkins House Museum displays articles and furniture from the colonial period. Built in 1766, it's the oldest house belonging to the Nova Scotia Museum.
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Pelton-Fuller House
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Old King's County Museum
Local artifacts, history and an art gallery can be seen at the Old King's County Museum.
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Northumberland Fisheries Museum
In the old train station, this museum explores the area's fishing heritage. Exhibits include strange sea creatures and the spiffy Silver Bullet, an early 1930s lobster boat.
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Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery
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