The navigation ambassador of Nueva Scotia will no longer make his long -awaited return to an American festival this week, with the vessel operators citing, in part, “uncertainties” that come with cross -border trips these days.
The Bluenose II, based in Lunenburg, had been scheduled to attend the Gloucester Glooner Festival in the Northeast of Massachusetts at the end of the month for the first time in seven years.
In a Facebook publication, the Society of the Lunenburg Marine Museum, the organization that operates the schooner for the province, said it had made “the difficult decision” to jump the festival and spend more time visiting communities in its province of origin.
“Some things shaped that choice: plans that involve cross -border trips come with more uncertainties this year, and at the same time, Nueva Scotia is experiencing a very busy tourism season,” said the voluntary society in his position.
Society said no one was available for an interview.
Tourism numbers falling
Although his statement did not explain the unknowns on the border, traveling to the United States from Canada has collapsed in recent months in the middle of a commercial war between the two countries and the threats of President Donald Trump to Canadian sovereignty.
The number of Canadians who returned from trips to the US. The return trips of Canadian residents per car fell 33.1 percent.
This year it would have been the first time of Bluenose II in the “sister city” of Lunenburg of Gloucester since 2018. Previously, the COVID-19 logistics interposed on the path of the container, a replica of the famous fishing schooner represented in the Tell de Canada, when attending the assistance to the festival, now in its 41st year.
Lunenburg’s ties with Gloucester, a 48 -kilometer coastal city northeast of Boston, date back to a friendly rivalry in the 1900s between the original Bluenose and American benches.
‘We are united together’
The two ports share a unique relationship, said Michael Dekoster, executive director of Maritime Gloucester, organized by the Schooner Festival.
“The fortune of the Gloucester fishing fleet has been linked for a long time to our sister city of Lunenburg and the News of New” We are united by prosperous years, by tragic losses and for centuries of sand and perseverance. “
He said Goucester sent an expedition of goodwill to Lunenburg for a rowing race on Saturday.
“The temporal challenges, whether wind, tide, finance or politics, cannot weaken these ties. We wait for the day when the Queen of the Atlantic once again numb our port under full candle,” said Dekoster.
The Lunenburg Marine Museum Society said that Bluenose II would return to the festival in the future.
“However, Gloucester will always be close to our hearts. The link between our two ports is deep.”
