Past Events

The 1st Annual Family Christmas at the Museum is this Thursday from 5-9, at the Cumberland County Museum. Take a tour of the beautifully decorated Heritage home, shop a few local vendors while your children decorate cookies and do Christmas crafting. The museum can help with Christmas baking, with sweet trays for sale. For more information call the museum at 902-667-2561 or email ccmamherst@gmail.com

Oxford’s 3rd Annual Christmas Production is going to be a Celtic Christmas Ceilidh, Friday and Saturday at 7 at the Oxford Baptist Church. Tickets are $20 and available at Oxford Home Hardware or message them on the Oxford Christmas 2018 facebook page.  

Saturday is Victorian Christmas in Amherst. From 10-5 enjoy the wonderful sights, sounds, and scents of a traditional Christmas in downtown Amherst with costumed carolers, horse-drawn wagon tours, and a Victorian photo booth at Focal Point Photography and Framing. East Coast Carolling will be downtown from 10:30 - 1:30. The real Santa Claus will be at Dayle's Grand Market from 10:00 to noon. Horse-drawn wagon tours will be from 1:00 to 4:00 with stops at Mansour's Menswear and Birkinshaw's

Join Joy Henderson has she helps you create your own Christmas birch bark wreath at the Fundy Geological Museum, Saturday from 1-3. Price is $25 per person and all you need to bring is a pair of gloves. Call 902-254-3814 or email fundygeo@novascotia.ca to pre-register.    

Roger Bacon’s Book Launch is Saturday at 2 at Coles Bookstore in the Amherst Center. Me And My Team, From Farmer to Premier was written by Morris Haugg as told to him by Roger Bacon. There will be a book signing with Bacon and Haugg til 4. After that a limited number of copies will be available at Coles.

There will be a Christmas Carol Sing Saturday at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Tidnish Dock. Meet at the church at 2 for carols, the Christmas Story and hot drinks. Dress warmly and bring an extra blanket.

The Joggins Improvement Committee is sponsoring a Christmas Casino Night, Sat Dec 15 from 8-11 at the Joggins Legion. The cost is $20 at the door. Your ticket gives you chips to play various games. Use your remaining chips to bid on lots of prizes at the end of the night. There will be live music and door prizes, and everyone who attends has a chance to win a prize at the end of the night. Proceeds will be used…

Holy Family Parish is holding a Christmas Concert Sunday Dec 16 from 2-4. There will be a youth presentation, A Christmas to Believe In, and music from the church choir and the M&M Youth choir. There will be light refreshments during the intermission. Admission is a Free Will offering for the church’s youth programs.