North Highlands Community Museum

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North Highlands Community Museum
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North Highlands

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Interpretive exhibits illustrating lifestyle experienced by early settlers of northern Cape Breton. Exhibits include gypsum quarry, stores, church histories, shipwrecks, furnishings, school and transportation, forge, settlers’ garden. Extensive genealogy centre and archives, visitor information centre, c@p site. Weekly concerts and events.

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29243 Cabot Trail, Cape North, Nova Scotia

902-383-2579

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