We Exist to Help
the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
Be the Best it Possibly Can Be!
The Canadian Maritime Heritage Foundation has a special connection with the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Our primary mandate is to help the Maritime Museum gather the resources to become the best it possibly can be.
We work with the Museum and other partners to help raise public awareness of the richness and diversity our maritime heritage and to celebrate its continuing relevance to the economic, social and cultural development of this region and our country.
We place a particular emphasis on supporting inclusive maritime heritage programs and initiatives that break new ground, make room for a variety of perspectives, and seek to serve the full diversity of people in our community, especially those who have been too often marginalized.
“We’re Going to Build a Boat School!”
For the past 10 years Museum staff have been building boats and changing the lives of kids-at-risk with imaginative programs that they’ve shoe-horned into tight spaces between restored classic Nova Scotian sailing vessels in our boat shop, on the deck of CSS Acadia, and in gymnasiums like the one in Pictou Landing First Nations School The success of these programs has created a demand that has far outstripped the Museum’s limited capacity to deliver.
Boat School: Building Boats, Changing Lives
Making positive impacts in the lives of Nova Scotia’s youth since 2015.
Boat School is a free program that creates inclusive and transformative maritime experiences for everyone, but especially for youth from underserved communities.
Participants develop pride, purpose
and recognition of life’s possibilities.
Our Big Current Projects
“We’re Going to Build a Boat School!”
Our Dream for a Boat School
Building Boats, Changing Lives
