We walked about to see the sights of this small community and noticed a black flag waving from the City Hall.
A young man who just left City Hall explained with choking voice that one of the boats had not come back from a fishing excursion and after several days of searching they had given the captain and his two sons up for lost.
This, we found out later is not an isolated happening.
In fact black obelisks are erected annually with the names of the victims engraved thereon.
Although we did not know the men, had never heard of them, the tragic of this occasion gripped us and moved us to tears.
These were mournful moments in such a pretty town.
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Part of the harbour for pleasure boats
Brightly painted houses in Lunenburg
The "Dory Shop" where they still build and sell
these handy work boats, preferred by fishermen.
Four Dorys
In the year 1926 alone...
These are the people of Lunenburg
"Who have gone down to the Sea in ships
and who have never returned"
In so many cases it was fathers and sons
or other family members, who lost their lives together.
Four members of the family Corkum,
5 Wambacks, 5 Whynachts
and so many more.
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