Old Burying Ground, Halifax
@buryingground.bsky.social
Founded 1749. A National Historic Site in downtown Halifax. Official account of the Old Burying Ground Foundation.
https://oldburyingground.ca/donate/
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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
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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
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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
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
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
October 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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
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
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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.
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.
September 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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.
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.
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.
June 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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.
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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 🏺
Please appreciate the PSA, I got a blackfly bite for this!
#gravestone #archaeology 🏺
May 31, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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 🏺
Please appreciate the PSA, I got a blackfly bite for this!
#gravestone #archaeology 🏺
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.
May 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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.
May 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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.
May 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Happy May! The gates are open and the Old Burying Ground is officially open for the season.
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...
www.jobbank.gc.ca/jobsearch/jo...
historic site interpreter - Halifax, NS - Job posting - Job Bank
Look at this job opportunity for a historic site interpreter at Old Burying Ground At Halifax, null or search through thousands of other job postings on Job Bank, Canada’s one-stop job board.
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April 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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...
www.jobbank.gc.ca/jobsearch/jo...
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This is an excellent article considering several sides of the discussion about the old Poor House Burying Ground.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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.
www.cbc.ca
April 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is an excellent article considering several sides of the discussion about the old Poor House Burying Ground.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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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.
April 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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!
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If you happen to be around #Halifax #NovaScotia on 4 April, drop into @smuarts.bsky.social to hear my preliminary talk on my @icuf.bsky.social -funded project #Ireland #Canada #CrimeanWar More to come on 25 June.
March 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
That's a familiar looking monument!
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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:
Iron Grave Markers: Perpetual Eternal or Standard Eternal? | Noticed in Nova Scotia
or anonymous?
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March 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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:
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"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
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
March 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"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
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
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/...
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.
www.cbc.ca
March 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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/...
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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
March 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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
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"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
Old Burying Ground, Halifax
#OTD
January 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"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
Old Burying Ground, Halifax
#OTD
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"In Memory
of
ALEXANDER ANDERSON
Who Departed this Life
13th of January 1806
Aged 3..."
Old Burying Ground
of
ALEXANDER ANDERSON
Who Departed this Life
13th of January 1806
Aged 3..."
Old Burying Ground
January 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"In Memory
of
ALEXANDER ANDERSON
Who Departed this Life
13th of January 1806
Aged 3..."
Old Burying Ground
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 ?
"Here lys the Body
of JEAN, the Wife of
WILLIAM CATER
she departed. this life
the 7th day of January 1783
in the 65(?)th
(year of her age)"
Old Burying Ground
of JEAN, the Wife of
WILLIAM CATER
she departed. this life
the 7th day of January 1783
in the 65(?)th
(year of her age)"
Old Burying Ground
January 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Is that your favourite crown-wearing skull in the top left corner @deadinhalifax.bsky.social ?
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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
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December 8, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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
@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!
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!
November 28, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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!
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!
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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
November 27, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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