Many of the emigrants from the Canton of Bern who were Calvinists and who spoke German would have preferred to sail down the Rhine to Rotterdam. They would have been traveling primarily in German speaking regions and would have found in safer than traveling through Catholic France or Italy. There was much religious animosity at the time including religious wars. It would be safer for Calvinists to travel through Lutheran areas than Catholic areas. The same held true for French Huguenots from Montbeliard and Alsace regions. In 1750 the English government would transport Swiss and German immigrants to Nova Scotia from ports in Holland and England to colonize this part of Canada. Roger (descendant of Swiss, German and Dutch settlers in Nova Scotia, specifically Ueltschi (Hilchey) Weis (West) and Claasen (Glawson)). These families, among the founding families of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, will be honored at the celebration of the 250 th. anniversary of the Founding of Lunenburg in 1753.