Epoxy
Pernette Lake
Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Also known as Lunenburg County, South Shore
Between 1749 and 1752 Britain recruited about 2,500 German, Swiss and French-speaking Protestants to Nova Scotia, to balance the Catholic Acadians.
They came from the Palatinate, the Swiss cantons and the principality of Montbéliard, mostly farmers, drawn by promises of free land and rations. They were held in Halifax for as long as three years before being shipped out in June 1753 to found Lunenburg.
One of them was Joseph Pernette, born in Strasbourg, who had soldiered in German and French regiments before he arrived. He drew a waterfront lot in Lunenburg, sat in the assembly for the county from 1761, and in 1765 took a grant of 20,000 acres on the west side of the LaHave.
He built a sawmill and a gristmill, brought a shipwright out from England and put the first ship on the river. He was still turning out for the militia in 1782, in the defence of Lunenburg. The lake shares his name.
Details
- Feature
- Lake
- Build
- Epoxy
- Material
- Solid Maple
- Colour
- Ocean Blue
- Size
- 10-1/2" x 16"
- Completed
- March 2025
How this one was made
Not wall to wall, so the dam follows the waterline about half an inch out and the flood runs along the shore. Pernette throws arms out in several directions with a shoreline that keeps folding back on itself, and there are islands sitting inside the water that each become their own shape in the pour. Maple has the least sanding margin of anything we use, so the seal gets the attention before the blue goes down. The heart is a separate colour, small, and takes a dam to itself.
Waypoints close by
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Groton Long PointNew London County, Connecticut, USAAlso from our workshop
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From Where this is
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