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St. John's Cemetery (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

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St. John’s Cemetery
Entrance of St. John’sSt. John’s Cemetery in 2019
Details
Established1839
Location6 Bedford Highway, Halifax, Nova Scotia
CountryCanada
Coordinates44°39′43.9″N 63°37′30.1″W / 44.662194°N 63.625028°W / 44.662194; -63.625028
Owned byParish of St. John's Anglican Church, Halifax
No. of graves12,000+
Websitehttp://stjohnscemetery.ca/
Find a GraveSt. John’s Cemetery

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:

The cemetery contains war graves of 70 Commonwealth service personnel, 62 from World War I (of whom 48 lie in the Naval Plot in Section Q) and 8 from World War II.

It is also the resting place of many people killed by the 1917 Halifax Explosion. A columbarium was added in 1994 on the site of the former St. Johns Anglican Church of Fairview.

References

  1. ^ Cemetery
  2. Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Cemetery Report

External links

44°39′44″N 63°37′30″W / 44.66215°N 63.62500°W / 44.66215; -63.62500

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