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Lunenburg | Nova Scotia

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UNESCO World Heritage Site
National Historic District

Lunenburg is the best surviving example of a planned British colonial settlement in North America. Established in 1753, it has retained its original layout and overall appearance, based on a rectangular grid pattern drawn up in the home country.

Photo: Alex Shprintsen, Toronto

Photo: Taxiarchos228, Wikimedia Commons

 

The inhabitants have managed to safeguard the city’s identity throughout the centuries by preserving the wooden architecture of the houses, some of which date from the 18th century.

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National Historic District

Lunenburg is the best surviving example of a planned British colonial settlement in North America. Established in 1753, it has retained its original layout and overall appearance, based on a rectangular grid pattern drawn up in the home country.

Photo: Alex Shprintsen, Toronto

Photo: Taxiarchos228, Wikimedia Commons

 

The inhabitants have managed to safeguard the city’s identity throughout the centuries by preserving the wooden architecture of the houses, some of which date from the 18th century.

Downtown, Lunenburg NS

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/741/

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Bluenose II - Lunenburg Nova Scotia

Bluenose II

For two decades, Bluenose reigned over the North Atlantic and brought fame to Captain Angus Walters and his crew.

Bluenose II was launched in 1963 and has acted as Nova Scotia’s sailing ambassador ever since. It has visited ports around the world, welcoming visitors and serving as a constant link to the glorious age of sail.

 

Visitors can join us for a harbour cruise in our home port of Lunenburg

Photos: Alex Shprintsen, Toronto

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For two decades, Bluenose reigned over the North Atlantic and brought fame to Captain Angus Walters and his crew.

Bluenose II was launched in 1963 and has acted as Nova Scotia’s sailing ambassador ever since. It has visited ports around the world, welcoming visitors and serving as a constant link to the glorious age of sail.

 

Visitors can join us for a harbour cruise in our home port of Lunenburg

Photos: Alex Shprintsen, Toronto

121 Bluenose Dr, Lunenburg, NS B0J 2C0

https://bluenose.novascotia.ca/

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Home Town of ‘Prime Minister of the Blues’

Dutch (b Norman) Mason was a blues singer. Mason was appointed the title “Prime Minister of the Blues” at a BB King concert in Toronto by King himself.

The Lunenburg NS native, Mason was born into a musical family — his father played stand-up bass and drums while his mother was a pianist. He raised in Kentville. At the age of 14, he played drums in his parents’ Dixieland band. By the age of 16, he was hanging out with coloured musicians in the community of Gibson Woods and started to learn how to play guitar.

Mason has lived in the last few years in a wheelchair in Truro, Nova Scotia. He passed away in 2006.

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Dutch (b Norman) Mason was a blues singer. Mason was appointed the title “Prime Minister of the Blues” at a BB King concert in Toronto by King himself.

The Lunenburg NS native, Mason was born into a musical family — his father played stand-up bass and drums while his mother was a pianist. He raised in Kentville. At the age of 14, he played drums in his parents’ Dixieland band. By the age of 16, he was hanging out with coloured musicians in the community of Gibson Woods and started to learn how to play guitar.

Mason has lived in the last few years in a wheelchair in Truro, Nova Scotia. He passed away in 2006.

Read more about Dutch Mason | People of Small Towns

https://www.1000towns.ca/dutch-mason-prime-minister-blues/

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Blue Rocks

A small village about a six-minute drive from the Town of Lunenburg. The little community of Blue Rocks is advertised as “Lunenburg’s answer to Peggy’s Cove”.

Still a working fishing village with blue slate rocks on the edge of the ocean making it an artisan and photographer’s muse. The fish shack sitting in the water is the most photographed building in the county.

Photo: Donovan Callaghan, donovancallaghan.wixsite.com

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A small village about a six-minute drive from the Town of Lunenburg. The little community of Blue Rocks is advertised as “Lunenburg’s answer to Peggy’s Cove”.

Still a working fishing village with blue slate rocks on the edge of the ocean making it an artisan and photographer’s muse. The fish shack sitting in the water is the most photographed building in the county.

Photo: Donovan Callaghan, donovancallaghan.wixsite.com

Blue Rocks, NS

https://lunenburgregion.ca/entries/thing-to-do/blue-rocks/

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Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic

The Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic provides the ultimate waterfront experience. While at the Museum, you experience life in a fishing community and discover, up close, life at sea.

Explore our living fish exhibit and wharf-side vessels. Make your way to the Ice House Theatre, where films are shown throughout the day.

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The Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic provides the ultimate waterfront experience. While at the Museum, you experience life in a fishing community and discover, up close, life at sea.

Explore our living fish exhibit and wharf-side vessels. Make your way to the Ice House Theatre, where films are shown throughout the day.

68 Bluenose Dr, Lunenburg, NS B0J 2C0

https://fisheriesmuseum.novascotia.ca/

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Ironworks Distillery

Ironworks is a micro-distillery located in the old port of Lunenburg on Nova Scotia’s historic South Shore. We take our name from the 1893 heritage building we call home: a marine blacksmith’s shop that once produced ironworks for the shipbuilding trade.

We craft our spirits with the same love of traditional methods and attention to detail.

Photo: Nicole Bratt from Seattle, WA, USA, Wikimedia Commons

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Ironworks is a micro-distillery located in the old port of Lunenburg on Nova Scotia’s historic South Shore. We take our name from the 1893 heritage building we call home: a marine blacksmith’s shop that once produced ironworks for the shipbuilding trade.

We craft our spirits with the same love of traditional methods and attention to detail.

Photo: Nicole Bratt from Seattle, WA, USA, Wikimedia Commons

2 Kempt St, Lunenburg, NS B0J 2C0

https://ironworksdistillery.com/

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Halifax & Southwestern Railway Museum

History of the Halifax & Southwestern Railway along Nova Scotia’s South Shore with pictures, artifacts and a giant model railroad of the line.

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History of the Halifax & Southwestern Railway along Nova Scotia’s South Shore with pictures, artifacts and a giant model railroad of the line.

11188 Nova Scotia Trunk 3, Lunenburg, NS B0J 2C0

http://www.hswmuseum.ednet.ns.ca/Home.html

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