Old Town Lunenburg
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How it came to be
Lunenburg is a port on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada. The Mi'kmaq had long lived in the area, and from around the 1620s Acadians settled here too, calling the place Mirliguèche. When Governor Edward Cornwallis visited in 1749 he found Mi'kmaq and Acadian families living together.
In 1753 the British sent more than 1,400 Foreign Protestants recruited in Europe, with about 160 soldiers, to settle the site. The town was laid out on a rectangular grid drawn up in Britain, and the settlers put up prefabricated blockhouses and a palisade. Discontent over provisions soon led to an armed rebellion, put down by troops under Colonel Robert Monckton.
Raids in 1756 and 1782 devastated the town, but it later prospered from the offshore fishery, exporting dried salt cod to the Caribbean. The Smith and Rhuland shipyard built the schooner Bluenose in 1921. Its original layout and wooden houses have survived, and it was inscribed in 1995.
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