The North Hills Museum

The North Hills Museum, Granville Ferry, Annapolis Valley, NS

The North Hills Museum in Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia is not just another farmhouse museum; it is full of 18th century treasures entirely unique to this area. The whole house is full of high-end antique furniture, porcelain and glass that would make any antique dealer drool.

This great gem was left to the Nova Scotia Museum by Mr. Bob Patterson an avid collector of 18th century antiques in his will.

Who Was Bob Patterson

Over 100 guides would pitch tents on Battery Point in Digby to take part in the Nova Scotia Guides Association competitions.

1922, August 31 the Berwick Register reports a three pound "Rome Beauty" apple, the largest apple ever grown on record.

People of legal drinking age had to obtain a "script" from the Doctor and get it filled at a local vendor to purchase their booze during the 1920's and 30's.

The Nova Scotia Hurricane of 1873 drifted south of Nova Scotia on August 26. It was a devastating hurricane that killed over 600. It destroyed over 1,200 boats and over 900 homes and businesses.

A popular Maritime saying is "Red sky at night - sailors delight; but red sky in morning - sailors take warning."

If someone is "flying off the handle" it means they are loosing their temper.

For many years the large, slow moving rodent, porcupines were a protected species in Nova Scotia.

According to Nova Scotian folk medicine, you should place salt fish on the patient’s feet to combat a fever.

Taking its name from the mill built on its banks by loyalist Henry Magee, the Mill Brook dissects the Main Street in Kentville.

You could buy boneless cod for .20 cents a pound or squirrel peanut butter at .35 cents a pound at the North End Grocery, Annapolis Royal in 1921.

Tom Forestall, a native of Middleton is one of Canada’s best-known artists. In 1960 he received his first major commission – a painting to be presented to Princess Margaret as a wedding gift from the Province of New Brunswick.

In June of 1797 many buildings in Bridgetown and Granville Ferry were destroyed by a severe thunder storm.

In a three-masted vessel, the mizzen mast is the mast closest to the stern.

A late snow in the spring is said to be "poor man's fertilizer".

The last convicted criminal that was hanged in Nova Scotia happened in 1933.

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