Old Burying Ground, Halifax

In Memory of
JAMES & GEORGE FREDERICK BOYD
Sons of
JOHN & ELIZABETH BOYD, who
Departed this life
JAMES the 9th Nov'r 1792
Aged 4 Months
Also GEORGE FREDERICK, the
27th Oct'r 1795 Aged 2 Years

Old Burying Ground

Last week the Old Burying Ground Foundation welcomed Their Honours, The Honourable Mike Savage,
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, and Ms. Darlene Savage for a visit and an opportunity to chat about the site and the work of the OBGF

An image of a burial ground in Boston with text overlaid which reads #31 Days of Graves Day 1: Flower Day 2: Nautical Day 3: Tomb Day 4: Languages Day 5: Bird Day 6: Gender Day 7: Angel Day 8: Glass Day 9: Hand Day 10: Urn Day 11: Military Day 12: Notable woman Day 13: Skeleton Day 14: Inside Day 15: Damaged Day 16: Obelisk Day 17: Relocated Day 18: Mistake Day 19: Social group Day 20: Wreath Day 21: Bronze Day 22: Landscape Day 23: Cross Day 24: Unique animal Day 25: Graveside ornament Day 26: Figure Day 27: Tree Day 28: Column Day 29: Occupation Day 30: Colour Day 31: Memento mori

REPOST (error in first post!)
Get ready! October 1st is the start of a month of gravestone and burial ground pictures, with a different prompt for each day. Be creative, there are no rules, just tag with #31DaysOfGraves!
Background image is from King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.

A person holding a digital SLR camera to their face, photographing a dark grey gravestone in a cemetery

Have you seen our photographer working to catalogue each of the roughly 1200 stones (front and back) in the Old Burying Ground? Don't worry, he's being very mindful of the stones as he works in some of the densely packed areas of the site.

Today I photographed graves for my book & found some wire brush damage 😠
Please appreciate the PSA, I got a blackfly bite for this!
#gravestone #archaeology 🏺

black and white infrared photograph of rows of headstones at the Old Burying Ground, with Saint Mary's Cathedral in the background

The gates are open today at the Old Burying Ground! Look no further for a sunny spot to enjoy your lunch or spend some time wandering amongst the stones.

Update to our open hours - Until the end of May, the Old Burying Ground will be open by chance only. We hope to resume daily openings June 1st for the summer season.

Happy May! The gates are open and the Old Burying Ground is officially open for the season.

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The Old Burying Ground is hiring summer guides! Our guides greet visitors, offer site tours, engage in research, and do some light maintenance work (clipping grass near the stones to keep them visible).
www.jobbank.gc.ca/jobsearch/jo...

Halifax starting plan for Memorial Library site that will honour forgotten burial ground | CBC News Municipal staff have said removing the building and creating a park is the best option for an area with a burial ground that has never been properly acknowledged.

This is an excellent article considering several sides of the discussion about the old Poor House Burying Ground.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Spring has sprung at @buryingground.bsky.social. A member of the OBG sent me this pic today. The Burying Ground will open for its 276th year May 1st.

That's a familiar looking monument!

Iron Grave Markers: Perpetual Eternal or Standard Eternal? | Noticed in Nova Scotia or anonymous?

A lcast iron marker from St Anselm’s in West Chezzetcook. There is a place for a name plate that appears long lost. Across the bottom it reads “WH Faulkner RD 1884,.” Read more about Faulkner's foundry in Moncton here:

"SACRED
To the Memory of
ELIZABETH
Late Wife of James Orman
Who de(p)arted this Life
March 18 1800
Aged 39 Years
Also, JOHN ORMAN obit Jan'y 1(?)
Aged 2 Mo's. 7 Days"

Old Burying Ground
#OTD

Man who burned down White House buried in Halifax Craig Ferguson, a director of the Old Burying Ground Foundation, shares the story of Maj.-Gen. Robert Ross and how he ended up in Nova Scotia. Watch his interview with Amy Smith.

Some timely coverage of one of the Old Burying Ground's most noteworthy residents: Major General Robert Ross (with the OBGF's own Craig Ferguson @deadinhalifax.bsky.social) www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Halifax’s Old Burying Ground was fictionalized as Kingsport’s Old St John’s Cemetery in Anne Of The Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery. She lived in Halifax 1895-6. Then it was known as St Paul’s Cemetery

"Here lyeth the body of Robert Nesbit of Halifax, Blacksmith who departed this life January 23 1783, aged 60 years."

Old Burying Ground, Halifax
#OTD

"In Memory
of
ALEXANDER ANDERSON
Who Departed this Life
13th of January 1806
Aged 3..."
Old Burying Ground

Is that your favourite crown-wearing skull in the top left corner @deadinhalifax.bsky.social ?

July 17, 1860 the opening of the Welsford Parker Monument at St Paul’s Cemetery (now the Old Burying Ground,) and the monument as it appears today

@buryingground

The Old Burying Ground could use a few helping hands!

On Saturday Dec 7, we will be installing covers to protect some of our most fragile gravestones through the winter. If you can help, please DM this account to get added to our volunteer mailing list!

The grave of Cristiana Rudolph (1799) in @buryingground caught my eye because of the delightful carving of a bird. The B&W pics are from the Farber Gravestone Collection. They were taken in the 1970s. Fascinating to see how it has changed in 50 years