Creamery Square

Giantess Anna Swan - Born in the mid 1800s and weighing approximately 18 pounds at birth, Anna Swan looms large in the history of Tatamagouche. Growing to a height of seven foot eleven inches, at sixteen she joined the P.T. Barnum's American Museum in New York City. While on an overseas tour with P.T. Barnum, she met and eventually married Martin Van Burren Bates the so called "Kentucky Giant". The Anna Swan collection holds personal items of Anna Swan, photographs, a door from their custom built house, and other items of interest.

Sunrise Trail Museum - exhibits include North Shore Mi'kmaq; Acadians at Tatamagouche; DesBarres and his first settlers; 19th-century agriculture, shipbuilding and lifestyle; and early 20th-century lifestyle.

The Brule Fossils - highlights fossils from one of the most important track way sites in the world; preserved specimens of hundreds of footprints of amphibians and reptiles older than the dinosaurs. Conifers and tracks preserved from 290 million years ago, and reconstructions of the animals that made the tracks.

North Shore Archives - contains an extensive collection of materials relating to the North Shore area. Research resources include genealogical records of local families, census records, history books, obituaries and cemetery records, pictures, maps, and information from newspapers about local history, people, places and events. Research fees apply.

Creamery Exhibit - Mr. Alexander Ross purchased this waterfront property in 1922 and in 1925 he built and announced the opening of his new creamery. Over 1000 local farms supplied milk to the Creamery in order to produce its famous "Tatamagouche Butter", which it did daily, making almost 2000 lbs. In 1930, J. J. Creighton purchased the Creamery and after he passed away in 1967, Scotsburn Dairy Cooperative Limited acquired it. Scotsburn kept the Creamery operational from 1968 until they closed its doors in 1992.

For a virtual tour of this and other local museums please go to: www.northshoremuseums.ca