a community project exploring our BOAT-BUILDING history
...follows the stories of the boats born here, the boats working here and the boats dying here. We are researching and talking to the people who designed boats, built boats and repaired them. This story begins with the sea canoes still built by the M’kmaq people and it then follows schooners, scallopers, lobster-boats and packet steamers, and it includes the little schooner being built at Annapolis Royal in the summers of 2016 and 2017.
We are interpreting our boats through the stories, photographs and visual art of these boats and the people, then and now.
We are interpreting our boats through the stories, photographs and visual art of these boats and the people, then and now.
The Fundy Boatworks project this year is part of the Annapolis Region Community Arts Council's sesquicentennial project: Annapolis Region's Maritime Culture: Then & Now. |
Welcome to Fundy Boatworks, in Historic Annapolis Royal Nova Scotia, Canada. Here we honour 400+ years of traditional wooden boat-building on the Bay of Fundy shores. The 2017 boat-building project, a small 19th century fishing schooner, is dedicated to the celebration of...
Canada's 150th Anniversary of Confederation 1867 - 2017. The boat building site is located on the new boardwalk platform behind King's Theatre and adjacent to the main wharf.
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This year, we are sponsored by the Annapolis Region Community Arts Council (ARCAC) and gratefully acknowledge support from all levels of government, especially Nova Scotia's Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage, Annapolis County, the Town of Annapolis Royal and community groups, especially The Historical Association of Annapolis Royal, and the Annapolis Heritage Society (AHS).