It's a town so picturesque, it almost seems reverse engineered to look good on a postcard, so it was probably only a matter of time until the folks at Hallmark came calling to shoot a Christmas movie in Lunenburg.

The small, close-knit Nova Scotia community — home of the Bluenose II, not to mention some of the best seafood chowder in the province — serves as the primary setting for Christmas Island, one of two Hallmark films made in the province appearing as part of the U.S. cable giant's annual…