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St. John's Cemetery is a cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia and forms a series of cemeteries in the Fairview area of Halifax, next to Fairview Lawn Cemetery and Baron de Hirsch Cemetery. Opened in 1839, it is the final resting place for a few prominent Anglicans in Halifax: Canadian Prime Minister Sir Charles Tupper [1]
Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec 4 John Thompson: December 12, 1894 4 Heart attack: 49 years, 32 days 0 days Windsor Castle, England. Holy Cross Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 5 Charles Tupper: October 30, 1915 6 Heart failure: 94 years, 120 days 19 years, 186 days Bexleyheath, Kent, England. St. John's Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 6
St. John's Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia; See also. New St. John's Cemetery; Old St. John's Cemetery; Saint John (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 4 ...
John F. T. Gschwind (died 1827), surgeon for Hessians; arrived in Halifax 1781 [48]; Charles Grant (military officer) (died 1785), 42nd Regiment of Foot – fought in the French and Indian War, Pontiac's War, and the American Revolution (New York and New Jersey campaign, the Philadelphia campaign, Battle of Stony Point, the Siege of Charleston, and the Siege of Yorktown), unmarked grave [49]
A blockhouse was built at the site in the 1750s to protect Halifax from attacks by the Mi'kmaq people.The land was subsequently developed as small farms. In 1893, the land was acquired by a private company, the Fairview Lawn Cemetery Limited, for a non-denominational cemetery because the Camp Hill Cemetery in the centre of the city was running out of room.
Garrison Cemetery, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, The oldest English tomb stone in all of Canada, 1720 CE; though the cemetery was est. 1605. Gates of Heaven Cemetery, Lower Sackville – Marty Barry , Denny Doherty , Angus L. Macdonald , Don Messer , Dave Trottier
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Holy Cross Cemetery replaced the first Catholic cemetery in Halifax, the St. Peter's Cemetery located next to St. Mary's Basilica on Spring Garden Road. Since 1843, some 25,000 persons have been buried at Holy Cross, many of Irish descent, including Canada's fourth Prime Minister, Sir John Sparrow Thompson. [3]