Author: rdbrinkhurst

The Bluenose 100 Committee is excited to share its plans for a virtual celebration of the 100th anniversary of launching Bluenose. This celebration also serves as a kick-off for a series of events throughout the year to highlight the achievements of the famed schooner and its importance in Nova Scotian and Canadian history. “The Bluenose

This year will mark the 100th anniversary of the launch of the legendary Bluenose schooner, and its home port of Lunenburg will celebrate with the reopening of a key part of its long shipbuilding tradition, the Big Boat Shed. The newly restored waterfront structure was the main boatbuilding facility for the historic South Shore town’s

A pair of new coins dedicated to the Bluenose from the Royal Canadian Mint serve to kick off a year-long celebration of the historic vessel. The $100 pure gold coin and proof silver dollar honour the schooner, built in the Smith and Rhuland shipyard in Lunenburg 100 years ago. “Bluenose is near and dear to

A century ago, if you had happened to find yourself on the sloping streets of downtown Lunenburg, you might have caught a tinge of excitement in the air. Down at the end of Montague Street that January 1921, in the yards of shipbuilder Smith & Rhuland, a highly anticipated new fishing vessel was being built