Nova Scotia

Early Modern Maritime Recipes examines recipes circulating before 1800 in print and manuscript in the area now defined as Canada's Maritime provinces. Early modern recipe writing focused on food and medicine, but recorded a range of other practices associated with alchemy, cosmetics, veterinary, medicine, and laundry, amongst other things. These recipes are texts about knowledge exchange and social networks.

Images and audio interviews relating to the transatlantic telegraph cable and its importance to the communities of Canso and Hazel Hill in Nova Scotia

Photographs relating to the SS Arrow oil spill, the most significant oil spill in the history of Eastern Canada

Photographs relating to the history of transportation across the Strait of Canso in Nova Scotia

Artifacts relating to the Cummingers, a prominant merchant-class family in Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia around the time of Confederation

Audio recordings and transcriptions of traditional songs of Newfoundland and Cape Breton as recorded by folklorist MacEdward Leach, along with related photographs

Photographs of Myra Freeman during her tenure as the first female Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia

Fossils discovered in Nova Scotia and portraits of their discoverers

Photographs relating to the Sable Offshore Energy Project, a natural gas project located near Sable Island, Nova Scotia

Historical photographs of Digby Neck in Nova Scotia