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Where was Margaret's Museum filmed?

1995 film, directed by Mort Ransen.

  • Nova Scotia

The story is set in Nova Scotia, so the filming stayed close to the setting.

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Nova Scotia
Filmed in
Nova Scotia
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About Margaret's Museum

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Released
1995
Director
Mort Ransen
Cast
Helena Bonham CarterClive RussellKate NelliganCraig OlejnikKenneth Welsh
Genre
DramaRomanceIndependent
Awards
Canadian Screen Award for Best Screenplay; Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design; Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor; Genie Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Set in the 1940s in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, the film tells the story of a young girl living in a coal mining town where the death of men from accidents in "the pit" (the mines) has become almost routine.

Margaret MacNeil has already lost her father and an older brother and for her, life alone would be preferable to marrying a mine worker—that is until the charming Neil Currie shows up.

Against the wishes of her hard-bitten mother they marry, but, before long, financial woes lead to his doing what every other uneducated young man does in the town: take a job underground.

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