While looking for some historical information on Murphy Cove recently we stumbled upon the Eastern Shore Archives and the “Coastal Community Mapping Project”. This Community Mapping process made connections between the communities along the Eastern Shore and their marine environment by looking back through their fishing history and coastal heritage, and ahead to the future. The project was carried out between July 2018 – June 2019 by artist Julie Adamson Miller.
Check out the interactive mapping project by clicking the button below. Its really Great!
(Roll over the dots down the left side of your screen to see a list of the communities)
(This information is available on the Memory Lane Heritage Village website.)
About the East Coast Archives
The Eastern Shore Archives was founded in 2003 in response to the need to preserve the records of the Hosking General Store which had been donated to the Heritage Society when the building was dismantled. The Archives is the only formally recognized community institutional archive (as defined by the formal admission process of the Council of Nova Scotia Archives) east of Dartmouth within eastern Halifax Regional Municipality. It has achieved peer recognition for its establishment and is actively supported by local genealogists. The Archives is located in the former Upper Lakeville Community Hall. The hall is one of the local buildings moved to the Heritage Village where it was authentically restored on the exterior and renovated on the interior to create a modern archival facility.
“Power plant, Dominion Mining Co., Tangier”
Date: 1911
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Library: QE185 A2 no.20-E (mfm 3715)
About Memory Lane Heritage Village
Memory Lane Heritage Village is an award winning living history museum depicting coastal rural life in Nova Scotia during the 1940s, including life during and after the Second World War.