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===Historical resources===
 
===Historical resources===
Historical libraries, in addition to research library at Dalhousie University at Halifax, include the Public Archives of Nova  Scotia and  the Nova Scotia Legislative Library.  The museum of the  Public Archives of Nova Scotia exhibits important documents, paintings, and  relics of the province's history. Other museums include the Nova Scotia Museum,  the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, all at  Halifax; and fisheries museums at Lunenburg and at North East Margaree.  The six national historic parks are: Fort Anne at  Annapolis Royal, the site of early Acadian settlement; Fortress of Louisbourg,  on Cape Breton Island, with the ruins of a walled city erected by the French in  1720-  1740; Port Royal near Annapolis Royal, with a restoration of the  Habitation built in 1605; Grand Pre in "the Evangeline  country"; Alexander Graham Bell, with a museum, at Baddeck; and Halifax Citadel, at Halifax. Important historic houses and buildings include the Perkins House, at Liverpool, which was built in 1766;  the Ross-Thomson House, at Shelburne, which was erected in the 1780's; Uniacke  House, built at Mount Uniacke near Halifax, in 1813-1815; the Wolfville Historic House at Wolfville; and Clifton (Haliburton Memorial Museum), the Windsor home  of Judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton, author of the "Sam Slick" stories.
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Historical libraries, in addition to research library at Dalhousie University at Halifax, include the Public Archives of Nova  Scotia and  the Nova Scotia Legislative Library.  The museum of the  Public Archives of Nova Scotia exhibits important documents, paintings, and  relics of the province's history. Other museums include the Nova Scotia Museum,  the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, all at  Halifax; and fisheries museums at Lunenburg and at North East Margaree.  The six national historic parks are: Fort Anne at  Annapolis Royal, the site of early Acadian settlement; Fortress of Louisbourg,  on Cape Breton Island, with the ruins of a walled city erected by the French in  1720-  1740; Port Royal near Annapolis Royal, with a restoration of the  Habitation built in 1605; Grand Pre in "the Evangeline  country"; Alexander Graham Bell, with a museum, at Baddeck; and Halifax Citadel, at Halifax. Important historic houses and buildings include the Perkins House, at Liverpool, which was built in 1766;  the Ross-Thomson House, at Shelburne, which was erected in the 1780s; Uniacke  House, built at Mount Uniacke near Halifax, in 1813-1815; the Wolfville Historic House at Wolfville; and Clifton (Haliburton Memorial Museum), the Windsor home  of Judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton, author of the "Sam Slick" stories.
    
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