Web Directory
The web directory is an annotated list of websites on subjects related to Atlantic Canada. Please contact us to suggest additions to the directory.
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic website provides descriptions of its temporary and permanent exhibitions, some of which include infosheets such as "The Halifax Explosion" and "The Museum's Guide to Sailing Ship Rigs."
Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic
The Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic features exhibits of sea vessels, sea monsters, and scallop shucking. There is also an aquarium.
Bluenose II - Nova Scotia's Sailing Ambassador
The website of the Bluenose II includes cruising schedule, captain's log, and information on the Bluenose II and her history.
Nova Scotia Museum - Learning Resources Catalogue
This website gives details on the educational outreach projects provided by 27 different Nova Scotian museums.
The Island Register
The Island Register consists of several databases listing postmasters, ship arrivals, land records, and other information.
Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership - Cumulative Index to Publications
The BoFEP website makes available online an extensive collection of publications.
Town of Oxford - Nova Scotia, Canada
The official website of Oxford, Nova Scotia includes a short, illustrated history of the town of Oxford.
Carleton County Historical Society
This site not only describes the work and progress of the CCHS, but also provides a catalogue of the document archives, illustrates some of the artefact collection, includes short biographical sketches of some of the County's historical figures, and details some of the history of Carleton County and the town of Woodstock, the oldest incorporated town in New Brunswick.
Acadie Vivante
The "Acadie Vivante" showcases the resilience of contemporary Acadian culture by presenting many traditional customs that are still practiced today. These traditions are documented through original video-based interviews conducted with women and men who still practice these customs or who have adapted them to modern-day settings, as well as with various specialists who contextualise these traditional practices. Various aspects of Acadian culture, such as folklore, material culture, food, as well as Acadian language and identity, are illustrated in these traditions.
Remembering Acadie
This site provides a journey through the memory of Acadians, the French-speakers of Atlantic Canada. In 2004, they celebrated the 400th anniversary of the first effort to create a French settlement in North America, in what was to become their part of the world. A year later, in 2005, they marked the 250th anniversary of their deportation, what they call their Grand dérangement (or Great Upheaval), at the hands of the British. This site provides both images and sounds connected with these two anniversaries, including reference to how they were marked on earlier occasions. Along the way, attention is paid not only to how Acadians marked these anniversaries, but also English-speakers who ended up inhabiting the sites of the earliest Acadian settlements and First Nations People, who befriended both the French settlers in the early seventeenth century and Acadians at the time of the deportation.
