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Kingsburg, Nova Scotia
Kingsburg is a small community in Lunenburg County on the South
Shore that is now mainly a vacation area.
The village is located at the end of Kingsburg peninsula by the
villages of Rose Bay and Riverport. The closest major centre is
Bridgewater. It also is not very far from Lunenburg. Kingsburg is
located between two beaches: Hirtle's Beach and Kingsburg Beach.
There is also a cape which has hiking trails (Gaff Point). Kingsburg
has two large lakes and a number of smaller freshwater ponds that
are popular swimming locations.
The village was settled by German settlers, with a land grant from
King George III of England on July 5, 1787 to five families.
(Leonard Hirtle, John Mossman, Peter Knack, Christian Hartman and
John Kayser) It was for many decades primarily a fishing community,
and a fish packing plant was established there. The village grew to
have a few hundred residents.
In the late twentieth century, with the widespread decline of
small-scale Atlantic fishery, the packing plant closed and the
fishing culture nearly disappeared completely. With little industry,
the town's population collapsed and many of the buildings were
abandoned and destroyed, leaving the town with only a few dozen full
time inhabitants.
By the 1990s, however, the South Shore had become a major vacation
destination. As other popular destinations such as Mahone Bay and Chester became crowded and very expensive, travellers turned to
smaller locations like Kingsburg.
Kingsburg with its beaches and
quiet isolation became a prime location. The old houses were bought
and restored, mostly by wealthy out-of-province cottage goers from
Ontario and the
United States. The empty land was also bought up and
many new houses were built. Prices skyrocketed and land there is now
worth over 200,000 Canadian dollars $50/m².
One of the only detractions to Kingsburg's idyllic setting is the
great amount of fog. It is perfectly possible to go for weeks, even
in mid-summer, with only a few days of visible sun.
