Lunenburg. This is a Unesco World Heritage Site. It was the home of the Bluenose and some great arcitecture. Lunenburg was established in 1753 and the British actually advertised for people to move here. They would give you land to farm. The only catch was you had to be a protestant. At the time the English were removing french catholics from Nova Scotia (Acadians) so they wanted to start a protestant community. Land was given to mainly German people and some french who were Lutherens. It didn't take long to figure out you couldn't grow a weed here so they turned to ship building and fishing. Thus the Bluenose was built here and the fishing industry blossomed. The biggest lobster ever grown caught here was 44lbs. Nova Scotia still holds the word record for the biggest Tuna fish ever caught. 1476 lbs. The authour, Zane Grey actually held the world record for several years with his catch of 785lbs. Tuna, and cod along with many other types of fish were the mainstays of the fishing industry. Like most fishing grounds, it was soon fished out, tuna was gone in the thirty's, cod has had a moratorium since 1995. Lobster during that time was looked upon as something only the poor fished for and ate. Now lobster is a huge industry in the Maritimes. Who knew???

The Bluenose won every sailing race for years. It was built in 1921 and sank in 1946. A stamp was made with the Bluenose on it, and the Bluenose dime was first minted in 1937. Bluenose11 is in Halifax and we might get to see her tomorrow. Some of the building here are pretty impressive. The old houses are amazing and there are still a lot of houses and building from the 1700's here. The old town of Lunenburg has been made a Unesco Heritage site and a lot of it has been restored. Tourism here is huge and we took an horse and buggy tour of the city, and are amazed at the amount of tourists still coming here. Jim