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Storymaps and Virtual Tours
Storymaps and Virtual Tours
The Society has supported and sponsored immersive digital initiatives that preserve and present the stories of Clements Township.
Hidden Village of Clementsport
A storymap created in 2024 by Carleton University Department of History graduate student Fionnuala Braun that describes the hidden stories of Clementsport that are kept alive by the people that live, and have lived, in the community. In spring 2025, Fionnuala Braun and CHS archivist Scott Digweed were interviewed during an Esri Canada Geographical Thinking podcast about this storymap.
A website by local photographer Dan Froese that has virtual tours of historic buildings in Nova Scotia. The tours of the Clements Township churches Old St. Edward's and Goat Island Baptist Church were sponsored by Clements Historical Society.
Local Historical Resources
Local Historical Resources
Several local historical societies and community groups have online resources that are useful in discovering and learning more about Clements Township and the surrounding area. Additional groups and information sources can be found on social media platforms, particularly Facebook.
The Annapolis Heritage Society operates local museums (O'Dell House, Sinclair Inn, and North Hills Museum) and preserves a wealth of information about local history.
The Bear River Historical Society meets in and maintains a museum in the Oakdene Centre, and holds an important collection of local photographs and documents.
Smith's Cove Historical Society and Museum maintains the local Methodist/United Church and Old Temperance Hall Meeting House, and operates a museum within the latter.
Mapannapolis publishes storymaps and a blog focused on spatial presentation of the history of the Annapolis region.
The Mi'kmaw Place Names Digital Atlas provides names and pronunciations for locations throughout Nova Scotia in Mi'kmaw, Nova Scotia's first language.
The DARwiki is an encyclopedic repository of information and digital objects relating to the Dominion Atlantic Railway, a key historic transportation link for Clements Township.
The Nova Scotia Virtual Archives provides public access to many digital objects of historial importance in Nova Scotia.
Annapolis Genealogy provides public access to many historical records useful in constructing genealogies with a connection to Annapolis County.
The Admiral Digby Museum houses an interesting array of artifacts illustrating the history of Digby town and county.
The Islands Historical Society maintains a museum and archives capturing the fascinating history of Brier Island and Long Island in Digby County.
Paradise Historical Society hosts an important museum and archives, and offers many interesting heritage-based events during the year.
Middleton Railway Museum vividly captures the rail transportation history of Annapolis County, housing an extensive model train layout in a heritage train station, alongside restored heritage rolling stock.
The Municipality of the County of Annapolis has a Municipal Registered Heritage Properties mapping application that includes selected heritage properties with brief descriptions and watercolour illustrations.
James House Museum is located in a provincially-registered heritage building and is the home of the Bridgetown and Area Historical Society.
Parks Canada closing down the Canadian Register of Historic Places
In late 2025, Parks Canada announced that they would be shutting down the Canadian Register of Historic Places, found at historicplaces.ca. This nationwide resource contains indispensable information about heritage sites, gathered by many people over many years. Taking it down without any succession plan is a tragic loss for the collective knowledge of culture and heritage of Canada.
To fill the void, other organizations are stepping in. The National Trust for Canada initiated a project in 2026 to replace the register. At a more grassroots level, the register in its current form is available here and on the Wayback Machine repository (this is the 26 March 2026 snapshot), possibly in perpetuity. To demonstrate that more and better is possible, Electric Archaeology has scraped the entire dataset, transformed it into portable JSON format, and redeployed it within an impressive dashboard application.
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