The Chronicle Herald

A year-long project to catalogue examples of Scottish architecture in Pictou County is now part of Canada’s national online museum. Some of the North America’s best examples of early 19th-century Scottish architecture can now be found on the website "Scottish buildings of rural and urban Pictou," a Community Memories project of the Virtual Museum of Canada, which can be found at www.virtualmuseum.ca. Comments by a visiting Scottish historian on the architectural quality of Pictou’s stone houses prompted a review by the Pictou Genealogy and Heritage Society, said the curator of society-operated Hector Exhibit Centre and McCulloch House Museum. The research led to the development of the website, featuring more than 180 pictures of the area’s Scottish architectural heritage and the stories that accompany them, said Darrell Burke.