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Researching Heritage Properties
A Guide for Researching Heritage Buildings Using Property Online
This guide offers step-by-step instructions for researchers using the province’s Property Online database to answer questions regarding the legal history of a given place.
Reference Collection
The Trust has a small research collection containing materials related to built heritage preservation, planning, and the history of specific buildings and communities.
Click here to learn about the materials available and how to access them
Education Resource: Nova Scotia: Our People and Their Built Heritage
The Trust hopes that future generations will appreciate and preserve our historic buildings and landscapes. By encouraging school children to explore the history embodied in their built environment we can help them learn what local people were like at various periods—where they came from, how they lived, worked, worshipped, and had fun. In short, we hope to develop among local children a sense of belonging to this place we call home.
To this end, the Education committee has, in consultation with the Nova Scotia Department of Education & Early Childhood Development, designed and developed this web-based learning resource for children.
Click here to view Nova Scotia: Our People and Their Built Heritage
A Built Heritage Craft for All Ages
How better to celebrate the heritage buildings throughout Nova Scotia than doing a craft that brings them into your home? This craft also provides an engaging opportunity for discussion about why our built heritage matters in our communities. The instruction sheet has simple step-by-step instructions for a craft that can be done with everyday tools and materials.
Memory Map
This project, funded in part by the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia, allows you to explore Halifax as it was in the past through historic maps and digital analysis.