Discover Our On-line Photo Gallary

1. To view the construction of our latest traditional motor boat project click here! (Over 70 Pictures )

2. Click here to listen to Our 6-1/2 Acadia Make-and-Break engine installed on our first traditional motor boat.

3. Explore Our exhibit on Community Memories -Virtual Museum of Canada .

The Winterton Boat Building Museum most important function is the preservation of Winterton's unique history and art of boat building. Unlike the practice at many other museums, in Winterton the boat building exhibit is an interactive one. The Museum is actively preserving the history of boat building by allowing individuals from the community to construct traditional trap skiffs. Many times visitors were very surprised to watch the actual building of these boats in full view.

Winterton is one place on the island where the traditional methods and skills of wooden boat building are being revived and preserved.

That is thanks to the Winterton Heritage Advisory Board and its museum which occupies an old school in the heart of the town. The second floor of the building houses the community museum while the downstairs space has been dedicated to the Winterton Boat Building Museum.