By 1784 Loyalists on the run from the American Revolution had swelled Shelburne's small population to 10,000-twice as many as Halifax and more than Montreal or Quebec. The new settlers included George and Robert Ross, sons of a Scottish merchant, who opened a store on Charlotte Lane, adjoining their house. They traded Shelburne's pine boards, codfish and pickled herring in foreign ports for salt, tobacco, molasses and dry goods which they then sold to the new settlers. The store eventually closed in the 1880s. Today Ross-Thomson House, the only original store building remaining in Shelburne, is restored as it was in the 1820s. It is operated by the Shelburne Historical Society for the Nova Scotia Museum.

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The Dory Shop Museum

Muir-Cox Shipyard

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

• $40.00: Adult  Individual Pass to Nova Scotia Museums throughout the Province

• $80.00: Family Pass to Nova Scotia Museums throughout the Province

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