The reverend mayor of Lunenburg: Laurence Mawhinney has a sacred and secular pulpit in this historic town.

Presbyterian Record | July 1, 2003| | Copyright

After a long winter, warm days bring people back to the historic waterfront of Lunenburg, N.S. It's been a gathering place since Foreign Protestants (as Protestant settlers from Germany, Switzerland and the principality of Montbeliard were called by the British) first landed there in June 1753.

"I have a picture of Lunenburg in 1978," said Rev. Laurence Mawbinney, Lunenburg's mayor and the minister of St. Andrew's Church. "Back then, the waterfront looked neglected. There was a railway track where Bluenose Drive is now. The whole area was scruffy--broken bottles and ...

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