Beautiful Historic Camp Hill Cemetery Halifax Nova Scotia

Beautiful Historic Camp Hill Cemetery Halifax Nova Scotia: In 1844, Camp Hill replaced the city's first cemetery, the Old Burying Ground, which had... more

by John Malone

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40.000 x 29.875 inches

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Beautiful Historic Camp Hill Cemetery Halifax Nova Scotia

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John Malone

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Beautiful Historic Camp Hill Cemetery Halifax Nova Scotia: In 1844, Camp Hill replaced the city's first cemetery, the Old Burying Ground, which had been established almost 100 years earlier in 1749. Originally run by a private company, the cemetery is now owned and administered by the Halifax Regional Municipality.

As a cemetery in the provincial capital, Camp Hill became the final resting place for many of Nova Scotia's elite. Officials did allow for the burial of Black Canadians, albeit in a segregated section of the cemetery. In the 1990s it was pointed out that the resting places of African-Canadian veterans of World War I, unlike other white Canadian veterans, were marked by nothing more than flat white stones. This situation has since been rectified by the federal department of Veterans Affairs.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintains the war graves of 10 service personnel of World War I and over 80 of World War II.[1]

There are also 17 graves of Norwegian sailors, soldiers and merchant seamen in Camp Hill Cemetery who died in Nova Scotia during World War II. These men were at sea when Germany invaded Norway in 1940. The King and government of Norway ordered the more than 1,000 ships at sea to go to Allied ports.
Some more notable occupants include:
Enos Collins (1774-1871), privateer, merchant, banker
Viola Desmond (1914-1965), civil rights activist, beautician
James De Mille (1833-1880), novelist, educator
Abraham Pineo Gesner (1797-1864), inventor of kerosene; a primary founder of the petroleum industry
Simon Hugh Holmes (1831-1919), lawyer, journalist, politician
Joseph Howe (1804-1873), journalist, statesman
Alexander Keith (1795-1873), brewer, politician
Jonathan McCully (1809-1877), educator, statesman
Peter Nordbeck (1789-1861), silversmith and jeweller
Harry Piers (1870–1940), museum curator, historian
William James Stairs (1819-1906), merchant, banker, politician
William Machin Stairs (1789-1865), Bank founder, merchant, statesman
Robert Stanfield (1914-2003), Premier of Nova Scotia, Federal Opposition Leader; one of Canada's most respected politicians
William Valentine (1798-1849), painter
John Taylor Wood (1830-1904), Civil War Confederate Naval Officer, grandson of President Zachary Taylor, nephew of Confederate President Jefferson Davis
Sir William Young (1799-1887), politician, Premier of Nova Scotia

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November 9th, 2015