Edward Cunard was the younger brother of shipping magnate Samuel Cunard. He worked for his brother as a master mariner. He died November 12, 1851. His sons Henry, Thomas, Frederick & James are also listed on his ledger stone in Camp Hill.

Canadian Merchant Navy Master William F Butler was lost at sea when the SS Port of Dalhousie was sunk by the German submarine UB-10, March 19 1916. He was 63. Camp Hill.

Royal Navy Petty Officer Gordon Leslie Spriggs was crushed during a battery explosion aboard the British submarine L26, February 27, 1944. Fort Massey

Albert Kynman was a Chief Petty Officer on the HMCS Esquimault, sunk by a torpedo from U-190 April 19 1945, just outside Halifax Harbour. It was the last Canadian ship lost in the war. Camp Hill.

Private John Richard Lambert was 18 when he signed up for No 2 Construction Battalion, Canada's only all-Black unit in the First World War. He died of TB while lifting rail track in New Brunswick to be shipped to France. Camp Hill. #RemembranceDay

RCAF Sgt Pilot Glenn Herbert Isralson was from Saskatchewan. He died when his Kittyhawk airplane crashed into Bedford Basin during a snowstorm March 10 1942. He is buried in Fort Massey Cemetery, Halifax

In March 1943 Pilot Officer Donald Weston Frazee's Beaufighter stalled & ditched off Malta. He survived, only to be shot down & killed less than 2 months later. He is commemorated on the Malta Memorial in Valetta and in Camp Hill Cemetery #RemembranceDay

Over The Top: breaking a stalemate by sending waves of soldiers out of the trenches & straight towards the enemy. Almost all were killed, including Sgt Edwin Walter Dorey. Christ Church Cemetery, Dartmouth. #RemembranceDay #Passchendaele #LestWeForget

JAMES A. L SERGISON SAPPER ROYAL ENGINEERS WHO WAS DROWNED IN HALIFAX HARBOUR NOV 11 1899 AGED 25 YEARS ERECTED BY HIS COMRADES OF THE 40TH & 18TH COMPANIES R.E AS A TOKEN OF OUR ESTEEM Mount Olivet, Halifax

RCAF Pilot Officer Bruce Henry Webb Stevens was serving with RAF's No. 70 Squadron. He went out over Italy in a Vickers Wellington & never returned. 4 RAF officers went missing with him. He is memorialized at the Alamein War Memorial, Egypt and on his family's stone in Camp Hill. #RemembranceDay

Here lieth Inter'd the Body, of JOHN NICCOLL: who unfor- tunatily lost his life by a fall from his cart: the 10th of November 1790 Aged 39 Years Also near the same place lieth the Body of his Son JOSEPH who Departed this life: the 25th October 178? Aged 4 Years Old Burying Ground

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

“Sacred to the memory of Frederick Matthias a native of the Kingdom of Prussia who departed this life in joyful hope of a blisful immortality November 9th 1826 Aged 42 years." Methodist Burying Ground

"ERECTED By Elizabeth Brunnen In memory of Her Son Elias Tupper Barrister at Law Who died by Accidence November 1847 Aged 35 Years" Camp Hill

Here’s what I’ve been up to - GRAVEYARD DETECTIVE - a new TV series featuring cemetery stories from across Nova Scotia - only on FIBE channel 1 & the FIBETV app!

#OTD in 2012 Paramedic John Michael Rossiter was killed when a 20-metre oak tree was blown from Camp Hill Cemetery and crushed his ambulance during Hurricane Juan. This plaque marks the spot.

Leonard Hickman was born in Birmingham UK in 1887. He immigrated to Canada in 1907. He was Chief Petty Officer aboard the HMS Repulse, a Renown-Class Battlecruiser. He died of accidental drowning #OTD Aug 10 1924. Fort Massey

"Purified by the Affliction of severe bodily pains for twelve Months, this meek and patient Sufferer entered into the Joy of her much loved Lord & saviour Jesus Christ." Margaretta Susan Tapp, died #OTD June 14 1838 age 26. Also her brother, Hanson George Tapp, 1823. Little Dutch Church.

Mary Jane (Cole) Horton died #OTD May 17 in 1917 of Bright's disease and flu. She was 53. Camp Hill

Halifax’s Old Burying Ground is open for its 276th year!

Today is the National Day of Mourning for Canadians injured or killed on the job. “The death of this lovely promising youth was occassioned by a fall from a scaffold.” John McQuillan June 14, 1829. He was 18 years old. Little Dutch Church Burying Ground Halifax

Tomorrow, we will be removing the winter covers to prepare @buryingground.bsky.social for its 276th year. We could still use a few helping hands. Please DM for details.

“John McDonald Died April 20 1896 Aged 32 years In paradise thou sharest bliss” #OTD St. John’s Anglican Church Westphal, Dartmouth NS

This is an excellent article considering several sides of the discussion about the old Poor House Burying Ground. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The most-famous of the Halifax Titanic graves shares a first initial and last name with the character @LeoDiCaprio played. Joseph Dawson was a Dublin-born engine room worker who spent his days shovelling coal, not painting French ladies. Fairview Lawn

“A truly hospitable & benevolent man.” George MacIntosh died April 12, 1821. He was 71 years old. At one point he owned all of Spryfield & part of Harrietsfield. He bought the land fron Capt William Spry. Little Dutch Church. #OTD #OnThisDay

A coffin-shaped slab in Camp Hill for David Hamilton MacGarvey. He was an insurance agent. He died of dysentery April 11 1892. He was 49. #OTD #History #OnThisDay

James Swan, born in Ayrshire Scotland, died on this day in 1842. Camp Hill Cemetery opened in 1844. Some gravestones were moved to Camp Hill after it opened and this is probably the case here.

Simon Bellefontaine lived in West Chezzetcook his whole life. He died from a chronic instestinal rupture #OTD, April 9 1940, at the age of 84. He’d been a fisherman but retired 20 years previous. St Anselm’s, West Chezzetcook NS.

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.

Peter Frederic 'Fred' Leblanc died #OTD March 30, 1947 from a "punctured lung & fractured liver," caused by a car accident. He was an auto mechanic & lived in Abrams River. He was 24. Photo by Deborah Trask , for Sally Ross, via @NS_Archives

"In Memory of ELIZABETH Wife of Charles Keefler, who was drowned at sea on board the Packet Brig Belle from Boston for Halifax 29 March 1854 off Liverpool N.S. in consequence of a collision with the R.M. Steamer Canada From Halifax to Boston Aged 55 years." Camp Hill

Magnificent thistle carving for William Paterson, a native of Scotland who died in 1863. Camp Hill.

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:

Lt (N) Alan MacKenzie Walker was first officer aboard HMCS Otter, a repurposed wood-hulled yacht with a history of fires. It was in 15-foot waves, waiting to escort a submarine into Halifax when it caught fire #OTD March 26, 1941. 19 people died. Camp Hill.

Brothers from different mothers: This memorial to William Mills & David Thom was erected by their Masonic brothers. Mills was an artillery gunner who died #OTD in 1820. Thom was a bombardier & conductor of signals at Fort George. He died in June 1820. Fort Massey

JAMES A. L SERGISON SAPPER ROYAL ENGINEERS WHO WAS DROWNED IN HALIFAX HARBOUR NOV 11 1899 AGED 25 YEARS ERECTED BY HIS COMRADES OF THE 40TH & 18TH COMPANIES R.E AS A TOKEN OF OUR ESTEEM Mount Olivet, Halifax

William J Harper was from England. He was Master At Arms on HMCS Niobe. He accidentally drowned in Halifax Harbour #OTD March 21, 1913. He was 47. St. John's Anglican Cemetery.

Saint James Anglican Church Cemetery (1845) overlooks Gaetz Lake in Seaforth, NS. Several stones in the cemetery also bear the Gaetz name.

Canadian Merchant Navy Master William F Butler was lost at sea when the SS Port of Dalhousie was sunk by the German submarine UB-10 #OTD March 19 1916. He was 63. His wife Drucilla died in 1931, at age 72. She fell down the stairs at her home on Gottingen St. Camp Hill.

"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

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/...

Albert Gaudet died #OTD in 1925 at 19 months old from caustic soda (lye) poisoning. His father Gregory was a barber. The family lived on Sackville St. near Lower Water. Mount Olivet

Saint Anselm’s in West Chezzetcook served the Eastern Shore since 1740. The church building (1894) was closed in 2019 due to mould. The names of the area’s founding Acadian families are found throughout the cemetery: Bellfontaine, LaPierre, Manette, Pettipas & more

The oldest remaining gravestone in Halifax’s Fort Massey Cemetery belongs to Elizabeth Winkle, who died in 1793 at 7 months old. It’s a military graveyard and minors buried here are mostly infant children of soldiers & sailors

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

Morella (Westhaver) Lennon died of stroke #OTD March 11 1939. She lived on Rose St. "had an attack of influenza the week before her death accompanied w/ slight attack of pleurisy which gave her very little discomfort." Christ Church, Dartmouth.

The recently-installed headstone for civil rights pioneer Viola Desmond, and her sister Wanda Robson, who championed her sister's legacy and told her story to the world. Desmond died #OTD in 1965.Camp Hill. #AfricanHeritageMonth

George Henry Joseph Diggs lived on Grafton St with his mother when he signed up for No 2 Construction Battalion in 1916. She received $15/month because he was her only means of support. He served in England & France until demobilization in 1919. Camp Hill #AfricanHeritagemonth