Old Burial Grounds | Cemetery | Halifax | Nova Scotia | Canada
The oldest cemetery in Halifax is located in downtown Halifax on the corner of Spring Garden and Barrington Street. The Old Burial Grounds hold some of Nova Scotia's first people. In addition, there are several notable graves sites including distinguished military leaders.
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Old Burying Ground Halifax
Located on Barrington Street in downtown Halifax, over ten thousand were buried here yet only 1250 markers remain in the cemetery.
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Halifax Ghost Tales: James Bossom (Old Burying Grounds)
Tour guide Andy Smith relates the story of James Bossom,
a 19-year old bully, who was shot and killed by local shop owner, Smith D. Clark.
Ghost Walk of Historic Halifax
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Introduction to the Old Burying Ground
Old Burying Ground, Beaufort NC (7-23-2019)
Hey Everyone ! In this special video I visit and do a small tour of the Old Burying Grounds in Beaufort North Carolina, This is a historic Cemetery with many notable graves and in this short video I show you 3 of the more famous Graves.
The Old Burying Grounds Is Located At:
400 Ann St, Beaufort, NC 28516
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Old Protestant Burying Ground - Charlottetown, PEI - a Summer Social, July 16, 2017
Bryon Howard, Calgary Real Estate by The Howard Team ... had a fun evening with family, new and old friends at The Old Protestant Burying Ground in Charlottetown on July 18, 2017. That eventing ... he took some video of the evening ... mostly of his father in law George Wright.
Jul 18/17 - message from Author of Who Departed This Life, George Wright.
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First of all, on behalf of the Board of directors of OPBG, I want to welcome those attending this evening., I will try in a few minutes to outline some of the history of the OPBG.
Early history is very scarce, but there remains one stone for an interment before 1800. It is that black stone for Isabella Bell, the young wife of Sgt George Bell a member of the 21st Grenadiers, who died in 1789.
The design and material of that stone is similar to many found in the Old Burying Ground in Halifax and throughout New England
The first indication of the site as cemetery was in 1784, where it was shown as a four acre plot in the large commons, north of what is now Euston St. There must have been earlier burial sites, but we have been unable to find any record of same.
The BG came into general use after 1800 with about 50 burials documented between 1800 and 1810.
How it was organized and administered in the early years is unknown . In 1826, a land grant was made to St Paul’s Anglican Church by Hon George Wright, who was acting Governor at the time, and my great-great grandfather. The land remained deeded to St Paul’s Church until the year 2000 when St Paul’s deeded the Cemetery to our organization, the Old Protestant Burying Ground Incorporated. The five original Protestant churches in Charlottetown assisted St Paul’s in it’s minimum maintenance , although the sextons of St Paul’s controlled the burials and opened and closed the graves and kept records. The charge for opening and closing a grave was 1 shilling for an adult and less for a child. After the currency changed to dollars, the amount was 80 cents
After some negotiations the Burying ground was used by all Protestant churches.
According to the local press through the years, every 30 or 40 years, the cemetery would become in dire need repairs, fencing and tidying up, and campaigns would be launched to restore it.
As we celebrate Canada 150, here at the Old Protestant Burying ground we celebrate the fact that this cemetery has been closed for almost 150 years, as of Dec 31st 1873, the year Prince Edward Island became part of Canada.. It is obvious that with this early closure date, we would not likely have Fathers of Confederation buried here, but we do have several mothers and fathers of the Fathers of Confederation, namely the parents of George Coles, John Hamilton Gray, Thomas Haviland , Edward Palmer and William Pope. We will visit some of these locations later on.
The current restoration program began in 1998 when then Mayor George MacDonald persuaded Rev Dr. Gordon Matheson to organize a committee to work on restoring the cemetery, and the rest is history, an active committee raised funds for the restoration, studied the history, compiled records of all the interment, it could document from various sources, so that what you see tonight is a well kept peaceful park like area with most stones erect. This is in place of what you would have seen 20 years ago, with the grounds growing up with bushes, many stones on the ground and broken, and the site known as a favorite drinking spot for certain people.
I want to take a few moments to talk about the stones. The majority of the stones are Wallace sandstone quarried from the site in Wallace Nova Scotia, this is the same material used in Province House and Confederation Center. There are a lot of stones of white marble, which in the thinner slabs were not very durable. People are interested Vaults and sarcophagi. The individual Sarcophagus is simply a box type monument on top of a grave. Some people expect there is a body inside the sarcophagus but this is not the case, there are several sarcophagi , some of which we will visit on the tour. We know of three vaults and there may be more. These were underground rooms in which the bodies were interred. Other monuments were various shapes of slabs and shafts. There are some table stones, which are similar to sarcophagi except they are not closed in on all sides.
As part of our research and education about the OPBG, we have researched various sources and have compiled a list of over 3200 burials, although we believe some 4 to 5000 burials have taken place .
I hope I have raised your interest so that you will want to purchase a book we have published on the history of the BG, entitled Who Departed This Life, a phrase you will see on many of the tomb stones here. They are available from at a price of $20.
Titanic Graveyard Fairview Lawn Cemetery All the Tombs (Halifax Canada)
121 victims of the RMS Titanic sinking are buried at Fairview, many with named tombstones but also many unidentified. A baby's tomb was for nearly a 100 years identified as The unknown child was finally identified as Sidney Leslie Goodwin lost along with his whole family. The Gravestones are arranged in the shape of a ship with the 'Unknown Child' at the prow. People leave coins and momentoes on the tomb of the Baby Goodwin, I wish we had brought something. Girls used to leave flowers on the Gravestone of J Dawson imagining him to be the 'Jack Dawson' of the movie but we saw none. I've been a Titanic fanatic for many years so this was an important moment for me. The identification of the Baby Goodwin can down to a fleck in the DNA of the the babies who matched, there is a fascinating documentary on YouTube about this where it turned out that two babies matched the DNA of the tiny body in the grave because they had shared an ancestor in the past 1000 years and also because a Canadian Mountie couldn't bring himself to obey orders and burn the tiny shoes of the 'Unknown Child'. We had earlier visited the smaller Catholic Cemetery for Titanic victims and sadly had no time to visit the Jewish Cemetery. If you are interested in this sort of stuff there is a LOT to see in Halifax (Windy City) so reserve a couple of days.
There is the Maritime Museum & the Immigration Museum (pier 21). The Halifax Explosion killed 2000 people and destroyed the city. The Empress of Ireland sinking which cost a 1000 lives.
The Titanic Cemetery is just a tiny part of Fairview which is huge. We drove by on the freeway without seeing anyway to get in so do your planning:-
Fairview Lawn Cemetery 3720 Windsor St, Halifax, NS B3J 3A5, Canada
Canada's connection to the TITANIC
After the sinking of the Titanic, ships were sent out to recover the bodies still floating in the North Atlantic. Those deceased were either given a proper burial at sea or were brought to Nova Scotia. Most of them were then buried in 3 different cemeteries in Halifax. While traveling through Nova Scotia, I had the opportunity to visit the graves and pay my respects.
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Unique study of 1,000 modern burials
When the city of Copenhagen decided to build a new underground station in the Assistens Cemetery where many famous Danes are buried, they had to remove part of the entire north-eastern corner of the cemetery and re-bury the people who had been laid to rest in this area. This presented a unique opportunity for archaeologists at the Museum of Copenhagen, under the leadership of Sian Anthony from Lund University in Sweden, to study the graves dating from the 1810s to 1980s.
Halifax's Oldest Cemetery/ Alexander Keith's Gravesite
Just a Quick Glimpse @ Halifax's Oldest Grave Yard and Alexander Keith's Gravesite and His Wife's Gravesite from Halifax Canada July 2009 ,She Was Only 36 he was 78..The Famous Beer Master....(Camp Hill Gravesite)
Memorial Day, 2015 - Old Burying Ground
Westfield Old Burying Ground Ghost Tour 2015
The Westfield Historical Commission began its third annual ghost tours at the Colonial-era Old Burying Ground on Sept. 25, 2015.
Halifax Ghost Tales: Her Majesty's Ship Volage (Old Burying Grounds)
This gravestone honours the crew of the British ship Volage who contracted typhoid while delivering goods in the Carribean. They now lay buried at sea off Nova Scotia's coast.
Historic cemetery Canton N.C.
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Graveyard of children
This cemetary was started back in the early 1800s when some travelers on covered wagons had a new baby die in their caravan. They looked for flat ground in which to bury the young child and left again on their travels. This is believed to be how the Davis cemetary was started. Today 200 years later, this property which has grown into the graveyard it is today, has a disturbingly large number of child graves in it for its size. I only show a few examples in this short video, but it should get the point across.
Oldest gravestone in Canada
The oldest (english) gravestone in Canada is located in the Garrison Cemetery on the Fort Anne grounds in historic Annapolis Royal, NS (est. 1605). It belongs to a Bethiah Douglass who departed October 1st, 1720.
Included are a few of the many old graveyards surrounding my hometown of Annapolis Royal (my old halloweening grounds!).
Driving in a Halifax Blizzard, February 13, 2017
Driving around the Halifax peninsula during a blizzard on February 13, 2017.
0:00 Queen and Spring Garden; former site of the Bank of Montreal, Rogue's Roost bar, and the original Tom's Little Havana.
0:27 Spring Garden Place (left),
0:30 Park Lane (right)
0:36 Lord Nelson Hotel (right)
0:42 Victoria Park (left), Public Gardens (right)
3:46 Dalhousie University (left)
4:23 University of King's College (left)
4:53 Oxford Street
5:23 Saint Thomas Aquinas Church (right)
5:59 Shaar Shalom Synagogue (right)
6:01 Oxford Theatre
6:29 Quinpool Road
6:45 West End United Baptist Church (right)
8:21 Atlantica Hotel (right)
8:24 The Willowtree (nickname for the intersection Robie Street, Quinpool Road, Bell Road, and Cogswell Street)
9:30 Bell Road
9:41 QEII Health Sciences Centre (right)
9:47 CBC Television Halifax (right)
9:58 Citadel High School (ahead and left)
10:06 Museum of Natural History (right)
10:19 Halifax Junior Bengal Lancers (right)
10:32 Citadel High School (left), Citadel Hill (right)
12:36 Halifax Common (left)
12:56 Halifax Armoury (right)
13:10 Agricola Street
16:16 Oland Brewery (right)
17:22 Young Street
19:02 Windsor Street
19:13 Halifax Forum (left)
20:03 Faith Tabernacle Church (right)
21:44 St. Antonio's Church (right)
22:26 St. Vincent's Nursing Home (right)
22:47 Atlantica Hotel (ahead)
22:57 Quinpool Road
23:52 Vernon Street
26:16 Coburg Road
26:41 Lemarchant Street
26:41-29:00 Dalhousie University
26:56 Killam Memorial Library (right)
26:56 Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building (left)
27:39 Dalhousie Student Union Building (right)
27:51 Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building (right)
27:58 Dalhousie Arts Centre Rebecca Cohn Auditorium (left)
28:11 Goldberg Computer Science Building (right)
28:11 Schulich School of Law (left)
28:22 Nova Scotia Public Archives (right)
28:35 Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency Station 2 (right)
28:46 Dalhousie Faculty of Dentistry (left)
28:53 IWK Health Centre
28:58 Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation (left)
29:17 IWK Children's Hospital (right)
29:26 Nova Scotia Rehabilitation and Arthritis Centre (left)
29:45 Victoria General Hospital (right)
30:03 Victoria Park (left)
30:18 South Park Street
30:25 Holy Cross Cemetery (left)
31:43 Young Avenue
33:13 Driver stuck in the snow
33:40 Point Pleasant Park (ahead and left)
34:19 Tower Road
35:41-37:49 St. Mary's University(left)
36:20 Halifax Grammar School (right)
37:06 Inglis Street
37:37 Inglis Street Elementary (right)
37:56 Robie Street
38:27 Gorsebrook Junior High School (right)
38:59 Dalhousie Faculty of Dentristy (right)
40:27 Camp Hill Cemetery (right)
41:06 Camp Hill Veterans Memorial Hospital (left)
42:10 Wanderer Grounds (ahead)
42:38 Public Gardens (left)
43:35 Sacred Heart School (right), Spring Garden Road
44:56 Lord Nelson Hotel (left)
46:22 Halifax Public Library (right)
46:41 Dalhousie Sexton Campus (right)
46:39 Nova Scotia Provincial Court (right)
46:45 St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica (left)
46:52 The Old Burying Ground (right)
47:10 Barrington Street
48:16 St. Paul's Anglican Church (left)
48:26 Grand Parade (left)
48:36 City Hall (left)
49:05 Duke Street
49:07 Granville Square (left)
49:09 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (left)
49:16 Nova Scotia Court of Appeal (ahead)
49:24 Hollis Street
49:36 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (left)
49:37 Province House, Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly (right)
51:09 Four Points Sheraton Hotel (right), Courtyard by Mariott Hotel (left)
52:33 The Westin Nova Scotian Hotel, VIA Rail station (left then on right)
52:09 Lower Water Street, Discovery Centre (right)
54:03 Alexander Keith's (left)
54:36 Maritime Museum of the Atlantic (right)
55:00 Halifax Transit Ferry Terminal (right)
55:14 Historic Properties (right)
55:22 Halifax Mariott Harbourfront Hotel (right)
55:24 Cogswell Interchange
56:07 Homewood Suites Hilton Hotel (left)
56:17 Halifax Regional Police Headquarters (left)
56:21 Centennial Pool (ahead, left)
56:30 Gottingen Street
56:50 Global Television Halifax (left)
56:56 Metropolitan Regional Housing Authority (right)
57:01 Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre (left)
57:13 Dalhousie Legal Aid (right)
58:23 North Memorial Public Library (right)
59:07 Canadian Forces Base Stadacona (right)
1:00:07 St. Mark's Anglican Church (left)
1:00:08 Shambhala School (right)
1:01:13 Hydrostone Market (right)
1:03:15 Getting stuck in the snow
1:06:32 Canadian Forces Base Windsor Park (right)
1:06:42 Royal Canadian Mounted Police (right)
1:07:47 Oxford Street
1:09:57 North Street Gospel Hall (right)
1:10:03 Oxford School (left)
1:11:33 Oxford Theatre (right)
1:14:58 Dalhousie University (left), University of King's College (left)
1:15:20 Beth Israel Synagogue (right)
1:15:30 Ambrae Academy (right)
1:15:41 First Baptist Church (right)
1:16:24 Wickwire Field
1:16:27 Dalplex
1:17:38 IWK Health Centre (left), Gorsebrook Junior High School (right)
1:17:56 IWK Children's Hospital (left)
1:18:43 Victoria General Hospital (left)
Old Windham Pioneer Cemetery, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada
2005 video of a pioneer cemetery at Simcoe, Ontario. The over 600 names on stones in this cemetery document burials as early as 1818. The first Presbyterian preacher in Norfolk was upon the first burials here. In the 1970s stones were gathered for grounds keeping. Some were apparently lost at that time.
St. Paul's Church, burial place of Loyalist Bishop Charles Inglis
Visit to historic St. Paul's Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia