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Lunenburg (/ ˈ l uː n ə n b ɜːr ɡ /) is a port town on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada. Founded in 1753, the town was one of the first British attempts to settle Protestants in Nova Scotia. Historically, Lunenburg's economy relied on the offshore fishery, and today it hosts Canada's largest secondary fish-processing plant.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Nova Scotia , Lunenburg municipality Zwicker House 13-15 King Street Lunenburg NS
Knaut–Rhuland House is a historic 18th-century house in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a designated a National Historic Site of Canada, [1] as well as a Provincially Registered Property under the provincial Heritage Property Act. [2] It is located within the Old Town Lunenburg World Heritage Site. [3]
Named in honour of the British king who was also the duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, it was established in 1759, when the Nova Scotia peninsula was divided into five counties. The county became smaller when new counties were created from its boundaries: Queens (1762), Hants (1781), Shelburne (1784), and Sydney (1784).
The Edward Ross Diaries. Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, Vol.9, 2006. Pp. 33 "Farm Life in Western Nova Scotia prior to 1850"; by J. Lynton Martin.Nova Scotia Historical Society, #37 (1970):(HC) Capt. Wm. Ross and the settlement (1816) of New Ross, Lunenburg, N.S.; Nova Scotia Historical Society. vol. 37 (1970); pp. 18.
In 1969, the Lunenburg County Historical Society was established to manage this historic site and turned the vacant lightkeeper's house into a community museum and gift shop. [18] In 2006, the society completed a Renaissance Project, which included the construction and attachment of a new building resembling the original 1874 LaHave Light ...
St. John's Anglican Church, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia; The Jessen Bell (1814) in the foreground. St. John's Anglican Church was the first church established in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada (1753). It is the second Church of England built in Nova Scotia, and is the second oldest continuous Protestant church in present-day Canada. Early on 1 ...
Blockhouse is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Lunenburg Municipal District in Lunenburg County. It was named after the blockhouses constructed by Captain Ephraim Cook to protect colonists following a raid in 1756. [1] The final blockhouse in the community burned down in 1874. [2]