• Source: Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia

Lunenburg County is a historical county and census division on the South Shore of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Major settlements include Bridgewater, Lunenburg, and Mahone Bay.




History


Named in honour of the British king who was also the duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, it was established in 1759, when the Nova Scotia peninsula was divided into five counties. The county became smaller when new counties were created from its boundaries: Queens (1762), Hants (1781), Shelburne (1784), and Sydney (1784).
By Chapter 52 of the Statutes of 1863, Lunenburg County was divided into two districts for court sessional purposes – Chester and Lunenburg. That statute provided authority for the appointment of a Custos Rotulorum and for the establishment of a general sessions of the peace for the District of Chester, with the same powers as if it were a separate county. In 1879, the two districts were incorporated as district municipalities.




Governance


Today the county has no legal status, although its borders are coincident with the five municipalities contained within it:

the municipality of the District of Chester
the municipality of the District of Lunenburg
the town of Bridgewater
the town of Lunenburg
the town of Mahone Bay
The above municipalities comprise the entire territory of the county.
There are three Sipekneꞌkatik First Nation reserves in the county:

Gold River 21
New Ross 20
Pennal 19




Demographics


As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lunenburg County had a population of 48,599 living in 22,443 of its 27,092 total private dwellings, a change of 3.1% from its 2016 population of 47,126. With a land area of 2,906.47 km2 (1,122.19 sq mi), it had a population density of 16.7/km2 (43.3/sq mi) in 2021.




Access routes


Highways and numbered routes that run through the county, including external routes that start or finish at the county boundary:




See also


List of communities in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia
List of communities in Nova Scotia
Lunenburg English, the distinctive dialect of the area




References






External links


Photographs of historic monuments in Lunenburg County
Lunenburg County Map

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Nova Scotia
• Keuskupan Agung Halifax-Yarmouth
• Chester-St. Margaret's
• Ontario
• Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia
• Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
• Southern Nova Scotia
• Municipality of the District of Lunenburg
• Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (disambiguation)
• Lunenburg County
• Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
• Riverport, Nova Scotia
• Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia
• Lunenburg (provincial electoral district)