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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The Sinking of the Valencia: The Tragedy and Beyond
The tragic sinking of the Valencia off the coast of B.C. and the navigation improvements which followed are profiled. Archival photos and documents are included in the exhibit.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The Riverboat Era
As lumbering, logging, and the riverboat era took off, the lake region of Ryerson Township, Ontario thrived. This virtual exhibit includes
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The Saskatchewan River Highway Through History
The importance of the Saskatchewan River as an early trade and travel route, and passage to open western Canada is profiled. Archival photographs, documents, and stories are included in the exhibit.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The Impact of the Railway on the Sutton Region
The coming of the railway to Sutton, Quebec transformed the town and greatly affected all the nearby industries. Archival photographs and documents are included in the exhibit.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The Lobster Plug Story in West Pubnico
What in the world is a lobster plug? Explore the exhibits of the village of West Pubnico, Nova Scotia to learn about "the lobster plug capital of the world." Archival photographs, documents, and local stories are included.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The Loyalist Link: The Forest and the Sea
Shelburne, Nova Scotia became a major safe haven for fleeing United Empire Loyalists. Its rise, success, and decline are profiled in the exhibit. Archival photographs and documents are included.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The Hubbard Expeditions
It was the goal of reporter L. Hubbard to complete an expedition into the interior of Labrador where no white man had previously gone. The exhibit profiles his ill-fated journey as well as the later successful one of his wife, Mina....
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The Great Fire of 1922: The Haileybury Fire
The events leading to the great fire of Haileybury in northern Ontario is profiled. Archival photographs and stories of that disastrous fire are included.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The History of Shipbuilding in Marystown, Nl
The history of shipbuilding in Marystown, Newfoundland,from the earliest beginnings to present day,is profiled. Archival photographs and documents as well as audio stories are included.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The Dickson Store
Follow the growth of a small town local store in Dickson, Alberta. The many roles played by it are included in the exhibit.
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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.