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 .
5-556: The Municipality of the District of Lunenburg , is a district municipality in Lunenburg County , Nova Scotia , Canada. Statistics Canada classifies the district municipality as a municipal district . Lunenburg surrounds the towns of Bridgewater , Lunenburg , and Mahone Bay , which are incorporated separately and not part of the district municipality. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada ,
10-518: The Municipality of the District of Lunenburg had a population of 25,545 living in 11,502 of its 14,233 total private dwellings, a change of 2.7% from its 2016 population of 24,863 . With a land area of 1,757.79 km (678.69 sq mi), it had a population density of 14.5/km (37.6/sq mi) in 2021. Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia Named in honour of the British king who
15-420: 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 . Today the county has no legal status, although its borders are coincident with the five municipalities contained within it: The above municipalities comprise
20-436: The entire territory of the county. There are three Sipekneꞌkatik First Nation reserves in the county: 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 km (1,122.19 sq mi), it had
25-583: 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
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