Ross Farm Museum

Can't think of anything special to do on Thanksgiving Day? Bring the family out for some good old fashioned fun. Enjoy demonstrations of open-hearth cooking, coopering and sauerkraut making. Take part in a fun auction for everyone in the afternoon at 2:00 pm.

Members of the Nova Scotia Basketry Guild will be here demonstrating witherod basket making from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm in the farm workshop.

Sat/Sun/Mon - Today is the day to step back in time and do some everyday hands on activities. Different activities will be scheduled each day such as wood punching, quill pen writing, taffy pull, candle dipping, cow milking, and blacksmithing.  

At the Ross Farm, you can hear the roar of the saws and the smell of the freshly cut spruce and balsam fir as the mill produce barrel staves and heads for our cooperage shop.

Today at Ross Farm Museum , staff will be on hand to inform and demonstrate the steps involved from planting of the seed to the spinning of the fiber.

Today is the 200th Birthday of the settlement of New Ross. Come and join the guests at Rose Bank Cottage to celebrate the past and enjoy an old-fashioned tea party from 2:00 - 4:00pm. Visitors are invited to dress in costume and take part in a tea party outside Rose Bank Cottage. There will be...Read more >