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SCHOOL CLASSES VISIT - Students from Creignish Elementary listen to the story of the early settlers in the Commerce Room before touring the Museum.A spinning wheel, daisy butter churn, home made broom, wooden washing machine and blacksmith tools are a few of the artifacts found in the Pioneer Room upstairs.
Children have a better understanding of life in earlier times after lifting the flat irons and hearing the stories of the wash being taken down to the brook in summer.
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Kids Day at the Gut of Canso Museum and Archives2000
Port Hastings, Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada
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CHILDREN'S DAY ACTIVITIES - Summer staff at the Gut of Canso Museum and Archives in the village of Port Hastings organized activities for children of the area.Teddy Bears Picnic and a visit from Santa in the Port Hastings Volunteer Fire Department truck were a few of the interesting themes.
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Gut of Canso Museum and Archives Railway Display2004
Gut of Canso Museum and Archives
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PICTORIAL DISPLAYS - "A picture is worth a thousand words" they say so this has been the basis of most of our displays. We've depicted the story of our communities over the two hundred twenty years of permanent settlement in this part of Nova Scotia using photographs in story lines throughout the Gut of Canso Museum and Archives.We receive many compliments on the homey atmosphere we've managed to create in this storey and a half bungalow on Church St.,Port Hastings.
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Nova Scotia Pulp Limited display at Gut of Canso Museum and Archives1998
Gut of Canso Museum and Archives
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COMMERCE ROOM - A new display was produced to replace this one on the history of Nova Scotia Pulp Ltd. (Stora Enso Port Hawkesbury) for the 50th Anniversary celebrations in 2005. We produced a new and more comprehensive pictorial display of the history of the Canso Causeway and Canal. Over one hundred seventy five pictures are mounted on panels telling the story of: lobbying to get a fixed link at the Strait of Canso, construction of the Canso Causeway and Canal, official opening ceremonies, impact on the people in communities in the Strait area, industries that came and anniversaries.21
Newspaper article on interviewing Mrs. Lillian Williams by the Port Hastings Historical Society.2003
Mulgrave, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada
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INTERVIEWING RESIDENTS - We continue to record the stories of our residents for future generations. Mrs. Lillian Williams of Mulgrave who raised a large family while serving as a town councillor had very interesting stories to tell to Katrin MacKinnon in 2002. Mrs. Williams is one of many interesting interviews done with residents of the communities on both sides of the Strait of Canso.23
Volunteers at Gut of Canso Museum and ArchivesAugust, 2002
Gut of Canso Museum and Archives
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VOLUNTEERS ARE THE ENGINE - Hundreds of volunteer hours are needed every year to operate a community museum and archives which is owned by a non profit organization. Here are a few of them who helped celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Gut of Canso Museum and Archives (formerly Port Hastings Museum and Archives) on August 28th, 2002.25
Lennan MacDonald on the left and Joe Larter on the rightJuly, 2004
Gut of Canso Museum and Archives
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RECORDING STORIES FOR 50TH ANNIVERSARY - Lennan MacDonald and Joe Larter were video recorded at the Gut of Canso Museum and Archives about their memories of working for T.C. Gorman Ltd. during the construction of the Canso Canal between 1953 and 1955. They were the first of five workers who scampered across from Cape Breton Island to the approaching Canso Causeway on December 10th, 1954. Three other workers made this historic crossing with them around eight o'clock that night. The rock fill was completed on December 31st,1954.27
Volunteer Rilla McLean meets with staff at the Gut of Canso Museum and Archives2004
Gut of Canso Museum and Archives
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