7:00 pm
Mi’kma’ki/Acadia/Nova Scotia has deep connections to northern regions—to Labrador, Greenland, and the eastern Arctic—stretching back thousands of years. A vital crossroads on land and at sea, the province has long connected people in the north to those in lands beyond. The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic’s 2016 interpretive project, North from Nova Scotia, aims to track these links as they have shifted and grown stronger over time, bringing peoples and cultures together across land, sea, and ice.
Children at Uummannaq, Greenland, taken during the Peary expedition
Based on artifacts and images in the Nova Scotia Museum collection, North from Nova Scotia explores the harsh and beautiful landscapes that connect Nova Scotia and the north, the abundant wildlife that these landscapes support, and the rich cultures that indigenous peoples and later arrivals built with these resources. It tells the stories of hunters who tracked seals and whales in elegant skin-covered kayaks, of explorers who struggled to adapt familiar ways of living to an unfamiliar world, of scientists who study the impact of changing climate on the lives of those who call the north home.
Canadian Research vessel, HMCS Labrador
Join Curator of Marine History Roger Marsters as he introduces the many ways that Nova Scotia acts as a bridge between places in the north and the world beyond, in the past and present alike.
CSS Acadia in ice
For additional information:
Richard MacMichael
902-424-8897
richard.macmichael@novascotia.ca