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

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.

St. John’s Cemetery
St. John’s Cemetery in 2019
Details
Established	1839
Location	6 Bedford Highway, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Country	Canada
Coordinates	44°39′43.9″N 63°37′30.1″W
Owned by	Parish of St. John's Anglican Church, Halifax
No. of graves	12,000+
Website	http://stjohnscemetery.ca/
Find a Grave	St. John’s Cemetery

Opened in 1839, it is the final resting place for a few prominent Anglicans in Halifax:

• Canadian Prime Minister Sir Charles Tupper[1]
• Father of Confederation John William Ritchie[1]

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.[2]

It is also the resting place of many people killed by the 1917 Halifax Explosion. A columbarium was added in 1994[1] on the site of the former St. Johns Anglican Church of Fairview.