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Step back to the days of slates and handbells at the Little White Schoolhouse Museum, a Truro landmark devoted to the history of early education in Nova Scotia in the 19th and 20th centuries.

In the Museum, you will find a WIDE selection of books and binders put together of newspaper clippings, important information and just about everything you ever needed to know.

​The building in Upper Burlington now known as the Community Hall was built in the second half of the nineteenth century as the community school, a role it filled for many decades before the wave of school consolidation made it redundant in the early 1960s. It has since been converted to community social and recreational purposes.

A online resource for those interested in learning more about early education in Canada. The history and reminiscences from those who taught and attended one-room schoolhouses are prevalent throughout the site.