by Hannah-Joy Stoltz | Sep 12, 2023
Welcome to “DISCOVER RUSTICO” in the former St. Augustine’s Credit Union building. This new welcome centre is a branch of the Farmers Bank of Rustico & Doucet House Museums (located 1km up the road on Rte.243, beside St. Augustine’s Parish Church.) Here we have a...by Judy MacDonald | Mar 1, 2017
The Farmers’ Bank of Rustico, a National Historic Site, operated from 1864 to 1894 as the first people’s bank and is credited with being “the precursor of the credit union movement in North America”. The museum describes the settlement of the...