Visit Queens County Museum, Liverpool, Nova Scotia
Our museum features a replica Privateer ship, and artifacts from early settler life, and the local indigenous peoples of the Nova Scotia, the Mi'kmaq.
Queens County Museum, Liverpool Nova Scotia
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Liverpool Packet - Queens County Museum
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Christmas Room at the Queens County Museum, Liverpool NS
White Point dropped in to visit the Christmas Room on Dec. 19/11, at the Queens County Museum on Main Street in Liverpool. This exhibit is an annual tradition that families have come to love and enjoy. This year, our collection of stuffed bunnies found their way into the exhibit - this video does not do teh experiecne justice - you must see it in person to really appreciate the detail and toy collection on display - it's a real trip down memory lane...for big kids!
Haunted - Queen's County Museum Investigation, 2018
Enjoy a holiday Haunted marathon, with the complete five episode Queens County Museum arc from the second season of Haunted (with commercial breaks removed), as the team returns to Liverpool, Nova Scotia, for a re-investigation of the location where their adventure began a year before.
Featuring Paul Kimball, Holly Stevens, Dillon Garland, Jim Kimball, and Chelsea Comeau.
Produced in association with Eastlink Community TV, and with assistance from the Nova Scotia Film and Television Production Incentive Fund.
Filmed in Nova Scotia.
(c) 2018 Winter Light Productions Limited
Open for Adventure - Region of Queens in Winter
Cold, snowy adventures, or fire-lit, cozy fun, your choice - we choose both! Queens County on Nova Scotia's South Shore is open for adventure in the Winter.
Coastal Beaching and Hiking in Liverpool, Queens County
Arts and Culture, Queens County, Nova Scotia
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Weekend in Liverpool, Nova Scotia Canada
It was great to stay at such a wonderful place and see the beautiful landscape. The people are so nice and if you never been to the Lane Inn & Restaurant, you are missing out.
Incredibly detailed 19th-century maps sought by Nova Scotia heritage groups
A group of historians in Nova Scotia are asking people to scour their attics and basements on a map quest for some very old charts created in the late 1800s by an American named Ambrose Finson Church. Church was mysterious man rumoured to have deserted the U.S. army in the throes of that country's civil war.
Haunted Extra - Queen's County Museum revisited
Haunted co-host / DOP Dillon Garland and I had the opportunity to re-visit the Queen's County Museum in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, while at the 2017 East Coast Paraconference in August, and to participate in a ghost investigation at what may have been the most active site of all the ones we filmed for the first season of Haunted. Once again, the Rem-Pod went haywire, in a way that it only did once before - at the Museum, and when referencing Mac Tonnies.
Haunted premieres on Eastlink TV in Canada on 17 October 2017, with the first part of the original Queen's County investigation from April 2017.
Dock Street, Shelburne, Nova Scotia
Dock Street, Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Tourist attraction on Nova Scotia's south shore
Taste of Nova Scotia - dining, Queens County, Nova Scotia
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Haunted Extra, Vol. 1.01 - Queen's County Museum Revisited
Haunted co-hosts Paul Kimball and Dillon Garland discuss their trip to the travel to the 2017 East Coast Paraqconference in Liverpool, NS, where they got the opportunity to re-visit the Queen's County Museum a few months after they investigated it for the first season of Haunted.
Joined by paranormal researchers Ryan Sprague and Greg Bishop, Paul and Dillon tried to replicate REM-Pod activity that they experienced at the Museum in April when Paul attempted to contact his old friend Mac Tonnies (who passed away in 2009).
The results were fascinating, and video evidence recorded at the Museum on 11 August 2017 is included here.
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Driving around Liverpool Novascotia
Van Dyk's Blueberries - WhyHere?
The Van Dyk family emigrated to Nova Scotia from Holland in 1956. After settling in Caledonia in the interior of Queens County, they raised their family and embarked upon a number of business ventures, including their internationally renowned wild blueberry juice business. Find out why they love this area. Visit whyhere.ca for more information on living, visiting and doing business in the Lunenburg-Queens region.
20 Commercial St. Port Medway, Queens County, Nova Scotia
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Port Monton Nova Scotia History or the Road
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Port Mouton--The Name
First Name: Wologumk, given by the Mi'kmaq. The word means deep gully or hole in the river.
Second (and Current) Name: Port Mouton, given in 1604 during the visit of Du Guast de Monts, after a sheep was lost overboard. De Monts and his crew settled in the area and used it as a base for exploring the coastal areas of the province.
Third Name: St. Luke's Bay, renamed by settlers from Scotland, sent out by Sir William Alexander.
Fourth Name: Guysborough, named in 1784 by grantees who were disbanded soldiers serving under Sir Guy Carleton during the Revolutionary War. In the second year, all but two houses were destroyed by a fire. The settlers moved to Cape Canso on the Eastern shore of Nova Scotia.
Early Description Of Port Mouton
An an anonymous pamphlet published at Edinburgh in 1786, a description is given of Port Matoon, or Gambier Harbour:
The soil for several miles around is full of rocks and stones and the most barren in Nova Scotia. One of the regiments, (the British Legion, commanded by Lieut. Col. Tarleton) which had served with distinction during the Revolutionary war, began a settlement here and built a town late in the year 1783. Unfortunately for them, being somewhat too late, and the ground consequently covered with snow, they were prevented from observing the nature of the soil until the following spring. Their town at this time consisted of 300 houses, and the number of people was something more than 800. They seeing the sterile appearance of their lands, and all their hopes of course frustrated, were meditating upon the best means of getting away to other places, when an accidental fire which entirely consumed their town to ashes, with all their live stock, furniture and wearing apparel, filled up the measure of their calamities. The summer of 1784 had been uncommonly dry, and many large fires were seen burning in the woods in various places, occasioned either by the carelessness of the Indians, or that of the white people at their work in the woods, in neglecting to extinguish their fires, the ground being at the same time quite dry and covered with moss and decaying vegetables. A poor woman at Gysburgh, (such being the name the Loyalists had given the place,) was undesignedly the cause of the misfortune; the fire, after it was once kindled, spreading so rapidly and burning with such fury as rendered all attempts to divert or stop its progress quite ineffectual, destroying in a few minutes almost every house, and driving the inhabitants before it into the water; one man more unfortunate than the rest perished in the flames. Scarcely any of the domestic animals escaped. In short, a more complete destruction from that merciless element never befel any set of men; and if a king’s ship had not been despatched immediately from Halifax with provisions to their relief, a famine must have ensued. On her arrival she found them without houses, without money and without even bread.
The remarkably dry summer of 1784 was also the cause of a disastrous fire at St. John, which, starting amongst some brush wood near the site of Centenary church, burned everything before it to the Kennebecasis. A large number of log houses were consumed, and a woman and child perished in the flames. The frame for an Episcopal church, at which the Rev. John Beardsley and others were working, on the southwest corner of the old burying ground, was destroyed at this time. The old 42d Highlanders, whose log houses, standing on the south side of Union street, from the ‘Golden Ball Corner’ eastward, were all burned, pulled up their stakes and went some twenty miles up the Nashwaak, where their descendants, the McBeans, McLaggans, Campbells, Youngs and others, still reside.
Captain Marks and his company escaped the disaster at Port Matoon by removing in the month of May to the Passamaquoddy region. The majority of their unfortunate townsmen, after the fire, removed to Chedabucto bay, in the eastern part of Nova Scotia, again giving the name of Guysburgh, (or Guysboro,) to their settlement.
There can be little doubt that Nehemiah Marks and his company were amongst those associated in the enterprise referred to in the following extract from a New York newspaper of the time:
Such persons discharged from the several Departments of the Army and Navy as have agreed to form a joint Settlement at Port Matoon in Nova Scotia, and are desirous of proceeding there immediately, are requested to give in without loss of time, a Return of themselves and families to the heads of their respective departments, in order that a proper vessel may be obtained for the purpose of conveying them and their baggage. They will hold themselves in readiness to embark in eight days from the date hereof.
LUNCH AT THE LIGHTHOUSE - Fort Point, Liverpool, Nova Scotia
Lane's Privateer Inn operate a gift shop and lunch menu at Fort Point Lighthouse in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. Unpack your wooden picnic box in the scenic park setting, and afterwards climb up the lighthouse to hand crank the foghorn!
View over the bay in Liverpool, NS
You half expect a pirate ship to show up anytime ;-)