Introducing Lunenburg
The largest of the South Shore fishing villages is historic Lunenburg, the regions only Unesco World Heritage site and the first British settlement outside Halifax. The town is it’s most picturesque when viewed from the sea around sunset when the boxy, brightly painted old buildings literally glow behind the ship-filled port. Look for the distinctive ‘Lunenburg Bump, ’ a five-sided dormer window on the 2nd floor that overhangs the 1st floor.
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Lunenburg was settled largely by Germans, Swiss and Protestant French who were first recruited by the British as a workforce for Halifax then later became fishermen. Today Nova Scotia has been hard hit by dwindling fish stocks, but Lunenburg’s burgeoning tourism trade has helped shore up the local economy.
Last updated: Mar 2, 2009
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