About Us:
Fort Point Museum and the Lunenburg County Historical Society
In June 1969 a group of local citizens sharing a common love for history, especially the history of Lunenburg Country, held a meeting to appoint directors to what became the Lunenburg County Historical Society.
In 1971 the Provincial Government, which had acquired the Fort Point historical site from the Federal Government in 1965, granted the society the use of the Fort Point lighthouse keeper’s house to be used as a museum. A year later the house had been transformed into a museum and its grand opening took place on September 7th, 1972.
The Lunenburg County Historical Society and Fort Point Museum have grown and evolved over the years, but retain the same focus- the history of the LaHave River estuary and its hinterland.
We live and work in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq. Mi’kmaw people have fished, hunted, held ceremonies, and raised families along these rivers and shorelines for thousands of years
- and continue to do so today.
We recognize the Mi’kmaq as the original and continuing caretakers of this place.
