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The old museum had no parking area, and no access for wheelchairs. Elderly might find it difficult to manage the approach. Yet there was considerable fondness for the museum, and it was with reluctance that the decision was made to move to the new Heritage Centre. Practicality and common sense won.

Local schools from the 19th and early 20th century are featured, with visitors sometimes finding a family member or even themselves in the group photographs on display. Various toys and books and young people's amusements from an earlier age are also shown.

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CSHC - Household equipment
19th and 20th Centuries
Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia Canada

Credits:
Creamery Square Heritage Society

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With the decision made to move to the new facility in Creamery Square, a Museum Consultant was employed - he went through the Sunrise Trail building deciding what he thought should go in the new Heritage Centre displays. It seems the former Museum curator had little say in what was to be used - this caused some resentment!

Volunteers have been working steadily checking inventories of the exhibits and making sure they are all recorded and photographed as required by the Provincal Museums Association. A small, volunteer run museum is expected to have the same standards as the professionally run, larger provincial museums....the volunteers do their best.

However the result is an excellent series of exhibits using information boards, raised photographs, touch screens, sound effects, a hologram and with only occasional cases to protect clothing or small items otherwise artefacts are uncovered. This somehow gives a more relaxed feel to the exhibits and visitors can relate to objects more easily.

This photograph is part of display of domestic articles including an early washing machine, and vacuum cleaner, Again visitors are delighted if they recognise items once used in their childhood or grandparents's homes

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CSHC - Two-headed calves
19th Century Circa 1890
Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia Canada

Credits:
Creamery Square Heritage Society

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The two headed calves are memorable - successive generations bring their children to see them,because the parents have always remembered! Over 100 years old now, one in particular is slowly disintegrating despite efforts to get professional help to restore it. It seems noone is available or it is too far for the calf to travel .....and too expensive! Perhaps a 'Save the Calf' box is needed.

The calves form part of a collection of 'curiosities' shown in an Victorian- style cabinet.

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CSHC - Shipbuilding- tool display
19th and early 20th Century
Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia Canada

Credits:
Creamery Square Heritage Society

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Parts of the Heritage Centre has things for youngsters to do - they can make rope and find out about the use of rope in the Age of Sail; learn about oakum and how it was used in caulking sailing ships - have a go using a caulking mallet and iron; they can look for objects indicated by the Creamery Cat and Creamery Cow and they can make their own butter.... and eat it. There are things for them to do and discover in the Activity Room, and clothes from past historical periods to dress up in.

The photograph shows Ship-building tools in a partly constructed wood ship,and there are various pieces of nautical equipment displayed, together with ship half models of locally built ships during the Age of Sail in the 19th Century

It seems sad that there is no longer any evidence of the ship building that took place along the North Shore...most visitors would never know how important it once was. However new information boards are in the process of being installed outside; one on ship building is close to the former site of a shipyard, just beyond the deck outside the Farmers' Market .

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CSHC - Butter making in the home
19th and 20th Century
Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia Canada

Credits:
Creamery Square Heritage Society

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Most early homes had butter making equipment, but the churn that used a dog to do the work, was more unusual. The butter table was for washing the butter, after churning, and 'scotch hands' shaped it and then the butter was either placed into a mould or a patterned mould was pressed in to the top of the butter - a housewife could often have her butter identified by the mould she used.

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CSHC - Mining and forestry
19th and 20th Century
Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia Canada

Credits:
Creamery Square Heritage Society

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Primary industries such as forestry, mining and fishing were typical of the early years in the area. An illustrated board tells of the canneries along the coast; mining for copper, gold and silica were all in evidence at one time, but nothing remains of these activities today.

(See Community Memories 1820 -1920 - A Century of Industry on the North Shore of Nova Scotia, Wallace to River John)

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CSHC - Farming and agriculture
19th and 20th Century
Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia Canada

Credits:
Creamery Square Heritage Society

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Farming of course was for everyone - with holdings of about 100 acres( 40.5 hectares); where possible the farm had waterfront, arable land and forest. In the early days when the tide was out, lobsters could be collected from the seabed - and turned into fertilizer to improve the land. Winter was spent in the woods, cutting timber and transporting it to the local stations for sending elsewhere. There were many blacksmiths; an iron foundry at Brule, produced stoves and agricultural equipment. Most men had to be prepared to work on anything required - from building their homes to making shoes for their families and there were local tanneries to provide the leather. Their story is told in the displays around the museum.

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Roy Kennedy
20th and 21st Century 1916 - 2000
Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia Canada

Credits:
North Shore Archives