At the heart of this history is a land dispute. Two opposing methods of landholding: a thoughtful allotment by a semi-nomadic turned-agrarian people versus an unnatural grid-based system imposed on one nation by another.

In July 2018, the Lunenburg branch of the South Shore Regional Library opened in the former Lunenburg Academy, a registered National Historic Site. The design for the new space represents a significant upgrade for the library and an important milestone for the town.

Today, no human witnesses remain to the tragedy of the 1917 Halifax Explosion. But the Memorial Park on Fort Needham Hill, with its vantage point overlooking ground zero of the explosion, will forever be tied to that devastating event.