Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Fishing town on Nova Scotia’s South Shore. In Cod it keeps sailing schooners to the Grand Banks longer than anywhere else.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cod | Mark Kurlansky | setting | Home of the Bluenose and of the last Grand Banks fishing schooner, with a gilded cod weather vane on the church. |
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World — Mark Kurlansky (1997)
Source: Cod · Original · Readwise highlight
The town of Lunenburg was built on a hill running down to a sheltered harbor.
- Role: setting
- In the book: Lunenburg keeps a sail-powered Grand Banks fleet well into the twentieth century and builds the Bluenose, which beats Gloucester’s schooners in races from 1921 to 1938. A Presbyterian church has a gilded cod weather vane, and the last fishing schooner, the Theresa E. Connor, is tied up as a museum.
- Why it matters: It stands for the end of the age of sail in the cod fishery.