5:00 pm at the Enterprise Centre of Hants County in the downtown Windsor Mall, 80 Water Street, Windsor.

Randall House Museum
Wolfville Historical Society, 259 Main St., Wolfville

Open June 15 to September 15. Admission charge is $2.00. Exhibit: “The New England Planters in Horton Township.”

Fieldwood Heritage Society Library & Heritage Centre, Main Street, Canning

The 2010 Planter anniversary display will feature a large display of Divisions and Farm Lots of the eastern section of Cornwallis Township in 1760, Planter Artifacts of the period, and a listing of the early homes in the area. The Built Heritage Inventory will be available.

1760 Planter Trail Upper Burlington

Built by local citizens using hand labour, this 1760 foot long walking trail promotes heritage and health. Interpretive signage recounts local history and land division from Planter beginnings to the present day. Located at 69 Old Walton Road, Upper Burlington, near the Great Kennetcook Dyke and former Great Acadian Village.

Avon River Heritage Museum
17 Belmont Road, Avondale

The museum, located on the shores on which the Newport Planters landed in 1760, looks at this local event in the context of world history in the time of the great global wars of 1754–63. Records of fifty years of Planter community meetings, starting in June 1760, are available, as well as contemporary artifacts.

West Hants Historical Society Museum
281 King St. Windsor

Through exhibits of household, industrial and shipping technologies of a bygone era, the museum displays the cultural history of one of Nova Scotia’s oldest communities. Help is available with research in the extensive genealogical collection. The museum provides staff for nearby Fort Edward, built in 1750.

Hantsport & Area Historical Society Museum Churchill House, 6 Main Street, Hantsport

The museum focuses on shipping and shipbuilding, and the genealogy of the Hantsport area. Self guided tours of Churchill House are available. The Ben Jackson interpretive panel at the Hantsport school is a stop on the Mathieu Da Costa African Heritage Trail, and the memorial to William Hall VC is very near.

Grand-Pré National Historic Site

Saturday July 24: The annual public lecture will focus in part on Acadian-Planter connections. Please consult the web site under “programs” for more information.

The Planter Trail is 1760 feet long, and constructed in 2009 entirely by pioneer (shovel and wheelbarrow) methods with no use of machinery except delivery of the gravel and sawdust. Construction was done by members of the Upper Burlington Community Hall Association and the Burlington Workers 4-H Club members and parents. Read More...

The Parish of Cornwallis will celebrate two milestones in 2010 - the 250th anniversary of Parish worship, and the 200th anniversary of the erection of the new and second St. John's Church. Services have been held at St. John's Cornwallis continuously for 200 years and the Parish of Cornwallis has sent Delegates to the Diocesan Synod every year since 1855. The present Wardens are closely connected to the founders of Cornwallis Township and the Parish of Cornwallis. Read More...

Randall House Museum curator and seamstress-tailor Bonnie Elliott is making it easier for those wanting to dress correctly for the Planter anniversary events by holding workshops this summer at Randall House in Wolfville called “Dress Like a Planter”. Read More...