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Lunenburg
The largest of the South Shore fishing villages is historic Lunenburg, the region's only
Unesco World Heritage site and the first British settlement outside Halifax. The town is
at its most picturesque 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 overhanging the 1st
floor.
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 burgeon-
ing tourism trade has helped shore up the local economy.
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