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 .
5-412: Lunenburg County can refer to: Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia , Canada Lunenburg County, Virginia , United States [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
10-476: 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
15-436: 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
20-463: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lunenburg_County&oldid=954611885 " Category : County name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia Named in honour of the British king who
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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