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
Entrance of St. John’s
St. John’s Cemetery in 2019
Details
Established1839
Location
CountryCanada
Coordinates44°39′43.9″N 63°37′30.1″W
Owned byParish of St. John's Anglican Church, Halifax
No. of graves12,000+
Websitehttp://stjohnscemetery.ca/
Find a GraveSt. John’s 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.[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.

References

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

44.66215°N 63.62500°W / 44.66215; -63.62500

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