If you haven't been to our website for awhile, you may notice something different — our name has changed to 'Nova Scotia Archives' (NSA).

On January 11, 2011, we became a division within the Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage (formerly Tourism, Culture and Heritage). At the same time, though as part of a separate restructuring initiative, the records management component of our integrated archives and records management program was formally transferred to the Chief Information Office (CIO) in Treasury Board. As a result, we are now the Nova Scotia Archives and the process of forging a new institutional identity is well underway.

Records Management staff remain on site in the Archives Building, to continue the collaborative relationship developed between the two components of the formerly integrated program. Records Management content also remains on this website during the transition phase to the CIO.

What does this mean for Internet visitors? Our mandate to preserve and share the province's archival heritage with Nova Scotians everywhere has not changed. Expect to find even more virtual exhibits, digitized archives, searchable archival databases, and other online products that have established us as a quality destination for Nova Scotians wanting to explore their families, their communities and their province.

Nova Scotia Historical Newspapers

Celebrate Gaelic Awareness Month in Nova Scotia by exploring four Gaelic newspapers published in Nova Scotia nearly a century ago. Fear na Céilidh ('The Visitor'), An Teachdaire Gàidheal ('The Messenger of the Gaels'), Am Mosgladh ('The Awakening') and An Solus Iùil ('The Guiding Light') were all published in the Sydney area and are now available online in digital format (1435 pages) for Gaels everywhere.

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Gaelic Resources: Goireasan Gàidhlig

Visit our expanded Gaelic Resources site to explore the newest section - the Maclean, Sinclair family papers, one of the finest collections of original Gaelic material in Canada.

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Clara Dennis

A virtual exhibit showcasing the work of Clara Dennis, Nova Scotia's first woman travel writer. Dennis travelled extensively through mainland Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island during the 1920s and 30s. She had an observant eye, a keen sense of popular history, and captured in her work a Nova Scotia that no longer exists. Nearly eighty black-and-white photographs, along with selected pages from her published works, re-create that world again.

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