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North Highlands Community Museum — attraction in Dingwall, Cape Breton

North Highlands Community Museum

Explore early settler life at this Dingwall museum featuring exhibits on gypsum quarries, shipwrecks, and local history, plus genealogy archives and weekly co

attraction· Dingwall, NS · ★ 4.60 (60 reviews)

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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