[1] [2] It has four galleries, one of which houses a permanent exhibit of photographs and artifacts of Hines, Yousuf Karsh, Wallace MacAskill, and William Notman.
Established in 2002, the Rossignol Cultural Centre, located in Liverpool, is housed in a former high school that was to be demolished.
One of Hines's architectural finds was a mission and a fortification built in 1699 by the French in Avondale, Nova Scotia, constructed at the request of Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre.
He also has two gold medals of excellence in photography from The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential in Philadelphia and the National Association for Photographic Art.
[9] Hines has published more than 70 books (many of which were best sellers),[1] his Extraordinary Light selling 43,000 copies,[10] as well as other products such as calendars.