The W. Laurence Sweeney Fisheries Museum was created by W. Laurence Sweeney’s son and daughters. We learned to convey the story of all the people of Laurence Sweeney Fisheries Limited
A small but beautiful museum to learn about the history of the Sweeney Fisheries.
We were here for research, but this is a museum for everyone interested in the fish industry and fishing boats and Rum Running Years.
Marine Slip and Machine Shop Lawrence Sweeney – needed repair and maintenance for his vessels.
Rum Running Years-1925 large cargos of contraband liquor landed at the North West Arm and the Bedford Basin, where rum runner headquarters were established. The south shore of Nova Scotia has hundreds of islands off shore which made it a perfect place for the rum-runners because they could hide their boats and liquor in one of their many coves.
An Ancient old Fish Cart dated back to the early 1900’s
The fisheries museum contains reproduced buildings inside.
We noticed an ancient old Office. There was a typewriter on the desk, an old telephone and a cast iron safe. This caught our attention.
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What a great museum! I think the rum running is so interesting in how it connected the Caribbean to the north 🙂
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Thanks ..it was a very interesting place we saw.
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Interesting place. Looks like they keep it well.
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Yes such a very historic site we saw .
Anita
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We enjoyed our trip to Nova Scotia and found that there was so much to see that we just ran out of time. Perhaps next time we will get to that area of the province.
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Yes we have so many historic sites to see .
Anita
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It looks a fascinating museum Anita.
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First time we have ever seen this museum. So very historic site.
Anita
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So many antiques to observe and admire! The Sweeney Museum does look to be a fascinating place to learn more about this region’s history!
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Only the two of us roamed the facility early. So much to see. As we were leaving so many people were arriving on tour .
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It looks really interesting. I love the old safe!
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Such incredible ancient safe. We roamed around this ancient old facility.
Anita
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On the morning of June 12, they ran into a bad storm off the coast of Massachusetts, said Lt.-Cmdr. Mason Wilcox of the U.S. Coast Guard. COAST Coast NS were towed back to NS. Around June this year.
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Off topic:
Have you heard anything about two German sailors [husband and wife] who were killed in a storm off Nova Scotia around June 12? They were take off their boat, the “Escape” by the Coast Guard, and later their boat was towed inti Dartmouth. Since I followed them on their blog I’m highy interested,
Their last post with some comments wbout the incident is here:
https://sailingescape.blog/2022/06/08/hamilton-bermudas-schmucke-hauptstadt/
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Looks like you emptied one bottle of rum1
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Ha! Empty but everyone drank this ..Rum Runners .
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I love these types of small museums. It looks like a great place to visit! Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks Diana. Enjoy your weekend.
Anita
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Such a cool place, I would love to visit! ❤️🇨🇦😍
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Yes such a very historic site we visited.
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