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DORY SHOP MUSEUM:

For almost one hundred years the dory was one of the most important small boats in the Atlantic Provinces and parts of New England. When John Williams' dory shop was established in 1880, it was part of a dory-building industry which, at its peak, included at least seven shops along the Shelburne waterfront. During the early part of this century the Williams Shop employed five to seven men and produced 350 dories per year. Most of these dories were sold to Nova Scotian and American fishing captains who called at Shelburne to outfit their schooners before sailing to the offshore fishing grounds.

Our Shelburne dories are not only found on the fishing banks ! This 10' half-dory is proudly displayed on the wall of a home in Vermont, USA.

The dedicated dory owner can have a coffee table made to measure.

Visitors to the Dory Shop can see from start to finish how dories were built. The museum is managed by the Shelburne Historical Society for the Nova Scotia Museum.

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Muir-Cox Shipyard

Ross-Thomson House & Store Museum

Shelburne County Museum

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Admission Fees:

$8.00 Complex Ticket which includes:
Ross-Thomson House, J. C.
Williams Dory Shop, Shelburne County Museum and Muir-Cox Shipyard
$3.00 per person for each museum
$6.00 for Complex Ticket for a pre-booked group
$2.00 for 1 museum for a pre-booked group
$10.00 Season Pass
$42.00: Adult Individual Pass to Nova Scotia Museums throughout the Province
$82.00: Family Pass to Nova Scotia Museums throughout the Province