About the Exhibits

CNSA Online Virtual Exhibits

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These virtual exhibits show a sampling of the documents found in Nova Scotia archives. All images were contributed by CNSA member archives.

• Click on “Holidays & Celebrations” for images of ordinary people celebrating special occasions and events.
• Click on “The Future of Our Past” to learn about the founding members/major contributors to Nova Scotia’s archives, organized by geographical location.
• Click on “Dr. J.B. Gilpin and Sable Island” to see beautiful watercolour images painted in 1854.

CNSA Members' Virtual Exhibits

Follow these links for more historical exhibits about Nova Scotia:

• From the Archives, Acadia University Archives
• 150th Anniversary of the Archdiocese of Halifax Archdiocese of Halifax (Catholic) Archives
• Photographic Holdings, Argyle Township Court House Archives
• Dignitaries Visiting Cape Breton Island, Beaton Institute
• World War I Sketchbook, Beaton Institute
• Album de photos Centre acadien de l'Université Sainte-Anne
• Thomas H. Raddall Archive Photo Gallery, Dalhousie University
• Photograph Collection, Les Archives du Pere Clarence d'Entremont
• Halifax and Its People, NSARM
• Mi'kmaq Resource Holdings Guide, NSARM
• The Halifax Gazette - Canada's First Newspaper, NSARM
• W.R. MacAskill fonds, NSARM
• Notman Studio Collection, NSARM
• Buckley Family fonds, NSARM
• J.A. Irvine fonds, NSARM
• Remembering Black Loyalists, Nova Scotia Museum
• Mi'kmaq Portrait Collection, Nova Scotia Museum
• James Harding Virtual Exhibit, Shelburne County Genealogical Society