Tancook Island Museum

Martha Farrar runs the "Tancook Island Museum". It is located in a small building beside the old store. She opened the museum in August 1995.

Martha collected old paper items such as tax lists and papers that were in the old store. Then someone offered her an old barn of furniture. At this point, she had enough items to open the museum.

Martha opened the museum because she watched people burn down the Mason boat yard. She wanted to preserve the history so the people of Tancook could see what the island used to be like.

Martha has done several special projects at the museum. Once she had Tancook students choose an item to research and then displayed them at the museum. She enjoys watching people going into the museum. Visitors are able to see what people on Tancook used to have in their homes and workshops. In the summer, hundreds of tourists visit the museum. There is a guest book and a website.

Her favourite item in the museum is the stove. When she found it, it was in 200 pieces. Her cousin came and offered to fix it. It took a long time to put the stove back together.

She thinks there are about 300 items altogether in the museum.