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Breeching Horse Model

A model of a breeching horse on display at the Cole Harbour Heritage Farm Museum. Horses would have to use this position, which involved sitting back in their […]

Marsh Lots

A map showing marsh lots, mostly belonging to the Bissett family. When the salt marsh was dyked, the resulting land was sold to local farmers, but it is […]

Dartmouth Agricultural Society

Many farmers from Cole Harbour were members of the Dartmouth Agricultural Society, and some familiar names can be seen here, on a membership list from 1886. J. G. […]

Steam Shovel

A Marion Steam Shovel moves earth in the course of building the Eastern Railway.

Hunter and Goose

Hunting on the salt marsh has been a common activity for as long as people have lived around it. When the estuary was owned by Peter McNab Kuhn, […]

Hunter

Hunting on the marsh was important to residents of Cole Harbour throughout the years. This young man continued that tradition.

Milk Wagon

Thomas Bissett sits on his milk delivery wagon with his two sons, Stewart and Cyril.

Market Wagon

Seymour LaPierre stands on his horse-drawn “Express Wagon.” Behind him, there appear to be eggs visible among the load. Farmers would use wagons like this one to go […]

Washing Carrots

A man (possibly Percy Ernst) washes carrots for market. Farmers in Cole Harbour sold their goods at the Halifax City Market well into the twentieth century, as their […]

Hot Beds in Winter

Hot beds were used to extend the growing season in Cole Harbour, being usually planted in March. Farmers would add manure along with the soil and plants, which […]

Lawlor’s Dyke

This stone dyke is traditionally attributed to the Jamaica Maroons who came to Halifax from the Caribbean in 1796. Most left the province in 1800 and resettled in […]

Johnny LaPierre

Johnny LaPierre stands with his ox and a wagon on a road in West Chezzetcook, Nova Scotia. Johnny farmed all his life in West Chezzetcook and always kept […]