Political History in Atlantic Canada

by Emma Lang  | Cultural Heritage Centre, Historic Building, House Museum/Homestead, Military, Monument / Landmark, Museum/Gallery, Park/Landscape, Places of Faith

All of these places tell the story of how politics and movements for change shaped our region and our country.

Places

Mockbeggar Plantation

Bonavista, Newfoundland and Labrador

Commissariat House

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

Colonial Building

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

Colony of Avalon

Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador

Ottawa House By The Sea Museum

Parrsboro, Nova Scotia

Story of Confederation Exhibit

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

Province House National Historic Site

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

Ardgowan National Historic Site

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

Connell House

Woodstock, New Brunswick

The Jury Room

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Government House

Victoria, British Columbia

The Turret

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Green Lantern Building

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Forrest House a Women’s Place

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Keillor House Museum

Dorchester, New Brunswick

Milkish

Milkish, New Brunswick

The Kimble Witch Trial

Long Reach, New Brunswick

TURN – Hewlett House and the real story of Colonel Hewlett

Queenstown, New Brunswick

Clifton Museum Park

Windsor, Nova Scotia

Encounter at Kwacha House

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Lucy Mitchell vs. Annapolis Country Poor Farm Cemetery, Bridgetown, N.S.

Bridgetown, Nova Scotia

Rose Fortune Monument

Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia

The Jordantown Acaciaville Conway Betterment Association

Acaciaville, Nova Scotia

The Van Buskirks, Loyalist nomads

Aylesford, Nova Scotia

Government House and the Maroons

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Kings College (and the slave economy)

Windsor, Nova Scotia

Dembo Sickles and Planter Era Slavery

Montague, Prince Edward Island

Emmanuel Baptist Church

Upper Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia

Saint Thomas Baptist Church

North Preston, Nova Scotia

Grove Cottage

Amherst, Nova Scotia

Road Map

Bonavista, Newfoundland and Labrador to Amherst, Nova Scotia

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