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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The Fairfield Excavations
The rediscovery and excavation of the old village of Fairfield, Ontario is profiled.The history of early settlers, artifacts, and the view of a long lost rural community make this a valuable historic exhibit.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The French Block
The 'French' block was an apartment building which was the home to several families. Through photos and audio, this exhibit shows how strangers turned into a close knit extended family.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The Canso Causeway's History and Impact
Cape Breton Island was separated from mainland Nova Scotia until the Canso Causeway was built. The exhibit examines community life and industry before the causeway's construction as well as its impact on life after it was completed....
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: That Was Phoebe: A Community Remembers Its Past
The love of a generational home is seen in this exhibit. Phoebe Nobbs Hyde willed her home to the community to be used by all those who loved history. Archival photographs are included.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Tackling the Timbers in Mission
The growth of the logging industry and the town Mission, B.C. is profiled. Archival photographs and artifacts of the time are included.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Tall Trees and More
The unique importance of logging and shipbuilding to Milltown-Head Bay d'Espoir, Newfoundland is profiled. Stories of families, logging camps as well as archival photographs are included.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Subsistence of Early Outport Newfoundlanders
The people of Elliston on the east coast of Newfoundland have lived an isolated life. This exhibit examines how they successfully maintained a self sufficient life by living off the land and relying on each other.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Summers by the Lake: The History of Grimsby Park
The development of Grimsby Park, Ontario is profiled. It started as the home of early United Empire Loyalists,then temperance camps, and later to an amusement park and beach. The era ended as the town became part of big city urban...
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Survival of a People: Using Our Natural Resources 1875 19
The struggle of communities to inhabit small islands off the coast of Nova Scotia is profiled. Weather and poor land challenged the people but as transportation and communication expanded, the isolation and life style of the islanders...
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Some Boats and Boatbuilders From Central Bonavista Bay
The long, proud history of boatbuilding in Newfoundland is profiled. The exhibit showcases the earliest craft made by the Aboriginal peoples to the many other kinds of boats that came to be constructed. Archival photographs are included.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Scrapbook History: Volunteer Women's Groups of Torbay
The contributions made by voluntary woman's groups in Torbay, Newfoundland are profiled in this exhibit.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Seeking the Story of Mission Beach
Mission Beach, Alberta has a history of Aboriginal people of different tribes and Christian missionaries of different faiths meeting together, making it the first mission west of the Red River Settlement.The exhibit includes historic...
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Prairie Fire
The growth of a prairie evangelical school located in Eston, Saskatchewan is profiled. Student life and interactions with townfolk as well as archival materials are included.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Prelude to Confederation
The Mockbeggar Plantation and Provincial Historic Site in Bonavista is profiled.It is the location where Newfoundland, the last province of Canada, joined Confederation in 1949.Archival photographs and documents are included.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Port in a Storm: The Newman Wine Vaults of St. John's
Did you know that Portuguese port wine was matured in Newfoundland for over 300 years?These historic wine vaults went from days of glory to disrepair. They now make up the Newman Wine Vaults Provincial Historic Site, and are profiled in...
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Powering Up Rural Manitoba
The spread of hydroelectric power across the Manitoba prairies and its impact on rural communities is profiled. Archival photographs, the introduction of new electrical appliances, and the major changes to rural life are included.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Places of Our Hearts
To have your ancestral community taken away by the Canadian government is the focus of this exhibit. The communities and way of life that were almost lost will now live forever because of this exhibit.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Point Atkinson Lighthouse: Maintaining the Light
The Point Atkinson Lighthouse,built to protect the shipping trade of a growing Vancouver, is profiled. This is the history of the lighthouse ..from early, isolated days to the lives of the keepers of the lighthouse and their families to...
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Papertown, the Dalhousie Story
The story of Dalhousie, New Brunswick is profiled. It grew from a fishing village to a prosperous town dependant on one industry, the paper mill. Archival materials are included in the exhibit.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: On the School Benches
The Ursuline Sisters of Trois-Rivieres who devoted their lives to the education of girls are profiled. Their contributions to the students and to the life of the community is explored through audio presentations as well as archival...
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: On the Trail of Silver
The discovery of silver, and the growth of the town of Cobalt is profiled. An outdoor museum keeps alive this era by recreating early mining life and showcasing machinery of the time as well as the changes which occurred over...
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: On to White Rock: A Building's Journey Through Time
The history of the train station in White Rock, B.C.is profiled. It thrived during the railway era welcoming travelers to its small community. After the railway closed, the landmark building lived on as the White Rock Museum & Archives.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Norris Arm: Those Pine Clad Hills
The history of Norris Arm, Newfoundland is profiled. Over the years, many different industries thrived..from salmon fishing and lumbering to the railway and the military. Archival photographs of the people and businesses are included.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Murder in Navan
The murder case of a suspicious foreigner with an accent in Navan, Ontario is profiled. During World War Two, suspicions and fear ran high everywhere. The death of a local police officer and the killing of a stranger are examined. Was he...