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By Tammy Fancy 22 July 2016 Share this story

Read Katie Ingram’s story from our July issue about North from Nova Scotia, a temporary exhibit at the Maritime of Museum of the Atlantic focusing on how NovaScotia connects to the Arctic

This story was originally published in Halifax Magazine.

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