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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Old Town Lunenburg' has mentioned 'Town' in the following places:
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| Coastal town and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Nova Scotia, Canada | WIKI |
| Town in Nova Scotia, Canada | WIKI |
| MargaretsProvincialLunenburgGovernmentxc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0BodyLunenburg Town Councilxc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0MayorMatt Risserxc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0MLASuzanne Lohnes-Croft (L)xc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0MPBernadette Jordan (L)Areaxc2xa0(2016)[1]xc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Land4.04xc2xa0km2 (1.56xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi)Populationxc2xa0(2016)[1]xc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Total2,263Time zoneUTCxe2x88x924 (AST)xc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Summer (DST)UTCxe2x88x923 (ADT)Postal codeB0JArea code(s)902 & 782Highways Trunk 3 Route 332 Route 334WebsiteTown of Lunenburg UNESCO World Heritage SiteOfficial nameOld Town LunenburgTypeCulturalCriteriaiv, vDesignated1995 (19th session)Referencexc2xa0no.741State Partyxc2xa0CanadaRegionEurope and North America National Historic Site of CanadaOfficial nameOld Town Lunenburg Historic District National Historic Site of CanadaDesignated1991 Nova Scotia Heritage Property ActTypeHeritage Conservation DistrictDesignated2000 | WIKI |
| Lunenburg /xcbx88luxcbx90nxc9x99nbxc9x9cxcbx90rxc9xa1/ is a port town on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada. | WIKI |
| Founded in 1753, the town was one of the first British attempts to settle Protestants in Nova Scotia. | WIKI |
| The town flourished in the late 1800s, and much of the historic architecture dates from that period. | WIKI |
| UNESCO considers the town in need of protection because the future of its traditional economic underpinnings, the Atlantic fishery, is now very uncertain. | WIKI |
| The historic core of the town is also a National Historic Site of Canada. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 Toponymy 2 History 3 Geography 3.1 Physical geography 3.2 Climate 3.3 Old Town 3.4 New Town 4 Governance 5 Economy 6 Demographics 7 Gallery 8 See also 9 References 10 External links | WIKI |
| To guard against Mi'kmaq, Acadian and French colonial attacks, the British erected Fort George in 1749 at Citadel Hill Halifax and founded the town of Halifax. | WIKI |
| [15] In 1754 the town had a sawmill and a store. | WIKI |
| [18] Lunenburg was raided in 1756 by a mixed group of Mi'kmaq and Maliseet raiders, devastating the town. | WIKI |
| During the American Revolution, privateers from the rebelling colonies raided Lunenburg, including the 1782 raid, devastating the town once again. | WIKI |
| The town was fortified at the beginning of the War of 1812. | WIKI |
| The coastline in the area is heavily indented, and the town is on an isthmus on the Fairhaven Peninsula, with harbours on both the front and back sides. | WIKI |
| Old Town[edit] | WIKI |
| The original planned town was built on a steep south-facing hillside. | WIKI |
| [27] It is now known as the Old Town, and is the part of town which is protected by UNESCO. | WIKI |
| New Town[edit] | WIKI |
| The town was extended into the east and west of the Old Town into what is now known as the New Town. | WIKI |
| The town is also within Lunenburg County, which was created for court sessional purposes in the 1860s and today has no government of its own, but the borders of which are coincident with certain provincial and federal electoral districts such as the Lunenburg Provincial Electoral District, and census districts. | WIKI |
| [1] High Liner Foods runs Canada's largest secondary fish-processing plant in the town. | WIKI |
| The town's architecture and picturesque location make it attractive to the film industry. | WIKI |
| In the 2016 Census conducted by Statistics Canada, the Town of Lunenburg recorded a population of 2,263 living in 1,040 of its 1,206 total private dwellings, a change of -2.2% from its 2011 population of 2,313. | WIKI |
| Lunenburg's World War I memorial Town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia looking across Lunenburg Harbour from the Bluenose Golf course Lunenburg Harbour Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic Lunenburg Boat Yards Bluenose II in Lunenburg View of Waterfront Lunenburg Academy Knaut-Rhuland House Museum Lunenburg House Zion Lutheran Church Tourists enjoy a carriage ride through the historic district of Lunenburg. | WIKI |
| Old Town Lunenburg is the best surviving example of a planned British colonial settlement in North America. | UNESCO |
| The inhabitants have safeguarded the townxe2x80x99s identity throughout the centuries by preserving the wooden architecture of the houses and public buildings, some of which date from the 18th century and constitute an excellent example of a sustained vernacular architectural tradition. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iv): Old Town Lunenburg is a well-preserved example of 18th century British colonial urban planning, which has undergone no significant changes since its foundation, and which largely continues to fulfil the economic and social purposes for which it was designed. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (v): Old Town Lunenburg is an excellent example of an urban community and culture designed for and based on the offshore Atlantic fishery which is undergoing irreversible change and is evolving in a form that cannot yet be fully defined. | UNESCO |
| Within the boundaries of the 33.85 ha property are located all the elements necessary to express the Outstanding Universal Value of Old Town Lunenburg. | UNESCO |
| The property encompasses the intact original town plan in its entirety, missing only the fortifications that surrounded the town in its early years, but of which there are no surviving above-ground remains. | UNESCO |
| Old Town Lunenburg is authentic in location and setting, forms and designs, materials and substances, and uses and functions. | UNESCO |
| The original British colonial town plan remains evident, including the regular layout of property parcels in a grid pattern with geometrically regular streets, central public spaces, and key community structures, with a functioning waterfront as its focus. | UNESCO |
| Most of the recent changes to the property are renovations to specific buildings, some of which have better conveyed the heritage value of Old Town Lunenburg than others. | UNESCO |
| Old Town Lunenburg, which is almost entirely in private ownership, is commemorated by the Government of Canada as a National Historic Site (1991) and protected under two key pieces of provincial legislation, the Municipal Government Act (1998) and the Heritage Property Act (1989), which enable the municipality to create, respectively, land-use and heritage bylaws. | UNESCO |
| In order to better manage the community as a World Heritage property and ensure the continuing protection of the townxe2x80x99s heritage resources, the Town of Lunenburg Heritage Sustainability Strategy (2010) has been developed to guide its development, including the identification of heritage, culture and tourism prospects that may produce economic opportunities for the community. | UNESCO |
| It will also require developing and implementing mechanisms to encourage building renovations that fully respect the heritage value of Old Town Lunenburg. | UNESCO |