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Bluenose: A Canadian Icon

Mayor William Duff and Miss Audrey Smith

William Duff (Mayor of Lunenburg, Member of Parliament for Lunenburg, and later Senator) standing on Zwicker's Wharf with Audrey Smith who christened Bluenose; launch day, 1921.

Date: 1921
Photographer: Dewitt Herman
Credit: Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic

Reference: Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic FMA, F87.136.2

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