Burial Grounds Care Society
37 Cornwallis Street B4N 2E2 Kentville, NS, Canada

26 June 2020, Finally able to get out & have a meeting, then get some overdue projects finished, the rain held off for us to get it done.

Dawn & Carmen fix the latch on the gate at Parker cemetery in Welsford.

Horton Township Poor Farm , Greenwich , Kings Co, NS

***UPDATE*** Thanks to all of your help we have been able to connect with the property owner who has generously offered to take us to the cemetery. This will a...llow us to document the cemetery for our archival records. Thanks again to all of you!! LOST CEMETERY IN MILFORD AREA CAN YOU HELP? The East Hants Historical Society has come across information written in 1951 identifying a cemetery located at Hunter’s Hill Wardrope we suspect this small cemetery is located on Hunter Road in Milford Station. The information we found states there were nine grave makers, mostly fieldstones, but one was a headstone with inscription. We would like to find this cemetery to document it in our records. We are hoping someone who may have information on this cemetery will see this post and be able to help us.

A great place to hold our meeting, present were Carmen Legge, Roberta Bishop, Dawn Barkhouse, Anne Strong, JoAnne Bezanson, John Nicholls

Searching for information.

Is it time for a comprehensive Heritage Conservation District plan for these burial grounds in the heart of Halifax? "Halifax's Downtown Merchants' Association... petitioned city council in 1958 to pave [the Old Burying Ground at Spring Garden and Barrington] over to create a city-owned parking lot for local businesses. Public outrage flattened the proposal instead, but other cemeteries in the neighbourhood were not so well defended. Just uphill from The Old Burying Ground, but still outside the town wall, was a cemetery serving early Halifax's small Jewish community. It is vaguely noted as early as the 1750s, but it has since disappeared and may have since been destroyed by construction. Nearby, the oversized bronze statue of Winston Churchill at the old Halifax Memorial Library paces blindly across a humbler burial ground. There were probably no grave markers here because this cemetery, which operated for about 100 years from around 1761, was reserved for inmates of the nearby poor house." See more

Have a safe and Happy Halloween!

This gentleman is making a bit of a name for himself through his adventures. This is about one of our local Poor Farms. For interest.

Its nice to see how other communities are commemorating their unknown pioneers in cemeteries once the original marker is gone.

Five mostly unmarked cemeteries in the downtown core contain the remains of approximately 20,000 early residents and visitors to Halifax.