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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: Robert Kruk

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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St. John’s Church

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St. John’s is an Anglican wooden church built in 1753-1758 built by an unknown builder, making it older than Canada itself.

The church’s exterior is a combination of white and dark painted wood, which complements each other magnificently. The church has a beautiful spire with many vertical points on the spire and the exterior of the church. The church has a stunning interior with the incorporation of dark wood and a very well-lit altar going hand in hand with each other.

Photos: https://www.stjohnslunenburg.org/worship/sunday-service/

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