Lunenburg

 It was an hour and a half on a bus to Lunenburg. We were fortunate to find that the Smugglers Cove Inn could pick us up as there is limited taxi and no Uber in Lunenburg.

We have been fortunate to have a couple of days of warm, but not too warm, sunny weather.

The Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic has some magnificent displays of the history of the Atlantic Fishery including the moratorium on Cod Fishing that Canada introduced in 1992. 

There were some fascinating old films shown of how the Cod used to be long lined fished from Dories and then loaded onto a mother ship. 

The Theresa E Connor was the last schooner to fish for Cod with Dory’s. Her hull is now being repaired on the slip of the museum at the east end of town. 

The story of the Bluenose is fascinating. The original Bluenose I was a fishing schooner and also raced very successfully against a US schooner out of Gloucester Massachusetts. She then fell into disrepair and was wrecked in 1946. A beer company, recognizing the marketing value of the Bluenose as a Canadian icon then provided the funds for building the Bluenose II. The beer is called schooner beer. Bluenose II is normally based in Lunenburg but she was cruising to different parts of Nova Scotia at this time. She is now owned by the Nova Scotia Government having been gifted by the previous owners. The Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic is responsible for operating her.


Here are some pictures.









This is a Dory from which Cod were long lined.

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