78 TOURING QUEBEC AND THE MARITIMES remained for a period of nearly two years, but finding it practically impossible to get along amicably with their neighbours, the English, who populated the adjoining gar¬ rison city of , they gathered together their be¬ longings, and sailing westward, settled at Merleguish. They arrived there on June 7th, 1753, and renamed the locality Lunenburg. Roussa Brook, the landing place of the first settlers, has been memorialized by the I.O.D.E . by the erection of a monument. The citizens of Lunenburg are solid and thrifty, noted for their generous hospitality extended to the stranger within their gates, and the traveller could not go anywhere where he would meet with better treatment and more courteous attention than would be extended to him throughout the whole district of Lunenburg. Next to Halifax , Lunenburg is the oldest settlement formed by the British Government, in the Province of Nova Scotia . We were met at Lunenburg station by Mayor A. W. Schwartz, members of the town council, Hon. J. J. Kinley , M.P.P ., and by the President and other members of the Board of Trade. A large concourse of citizens was also there with cars, and our party was conducted on a sight¬ seeing trip around the town. First we were taken to the grandstand on the summit of the hill, from which we viewed, at the front of the town, Lunenburg harbour, the second finest harbour on the south shore of Nova Scotia , the home waters of Lunenburg's far-famed fishing fleet. In the distance we saw Chester. Never shall we lose the far-reaching beauty and tranquility of that picture. At the entrance to the bay is , stretched as a battle¬ ment across the harbour to protect its inner waters from the terrific force of the mountainous waves of the Atlantic Ocean, which continually beat upon its shores. On the