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Memory Lane Heritage Village
5435 Clam Harbour Road
Lake Charlotte, Nova Scotia
directions
Memory Lane Heritage Village is located in Lake Charlotte on Nova Scotia's beautiful Eastern Shore.
From Halifax or Dartmouth follow the signs for the Eastern Shore and take Highway #107 to Musquodoboit Harbour, and then go East Highway #7 to Lake Charlotte. From Antigonish, follow the Marine Drive route west from Sherbrooke Village.
“stroll back in time to the 1940s”
Memory Lane Heritage Village is an award-winning living history museum depicting coastal rural life in Nova Scotia during the 1940s, including life during and after the Second World War.
From June through September, Memory Lane welcomes visitors and families to explore the many heritage buildings, relocated from their original locations around the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia. They have live animals that roam the grounds and artifacts you can touch and explore.
Visit Memory Lane Heritage Village
Check out a gallery of photos from other weddings hosted at Memory Lane to see why our photographer is just as excited about the venue as we are.
family connections
The 1940s charm isn't the only reason why we chose this location for our wedding. Christina's mother's family has roots in Clam Harbour, Lake Charlotte and the Eastern Shore.
Clam Harbour United Church
The church at Memory Lane is the Clam Harbour United Church, formerly located in Clam Harbour just down the road before it was deconsecrated and moved to Memory Lane.
Christina's mother, Lois Miller, attended church here as a child when she would spend the summers with her grandmother, Gladys Robson, aka "Gardie", who lived in Clam Harbour.
Gladys (Palmer) Robson holding baby Lois Miller.
On the pulpit sits the Robson family bible. Between some of its pages are dried flowers left by Lois as a little girl.
Behind the pulpit is a list of local men who served in WWI and WWII, including Lois's uncle, Douglas Robson, and Lois's father, David Miller (of Fall River).
Lois's uncle Douglas Robson married Frances Webber in 1943 in the Lake Charlotte Union Church.
In the mid-1990s, a member of the Webber family donated the land and came up with the idea to create Memory Lane Heritage Village.
You can visit the historic Webber House as you tour the village during our cocktail hour.
Wedding of Douglas Robson and Frances (Webber) Robson. Photo: Eastern Shore Archives via MemoryNS.
Frances (Webber) Robson holding baby Lois Miller.
Robson and Webber artifacts can be found throughout the village buildings, including Aunt Frances's dolls, various items from the kitchens of Lois's mother Edna (Robson) Miller and grandmother Robson, rugs hooked by grandmother Robson, doll and baby clothes, school books, aprons, men's work clothes, etc.
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