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    The Old Burying Ground (also known as St. Paul's Church Cemetery) is a historic cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is located at the intersection...
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    Furmage (d. 1793), Huntingdonian Missionary who was buried in the Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia). After a year he was followed by Isaac Limerick...
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    Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is the oldest military burial ground in Canada. The cemetery has grave markers to those who died while serving at Halifax and were...
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    Black Loyalist (category Ethnic groups in Nova Scotia)
    are also a number of Black loyalists buried in unmarked graves in the Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia). Among, the descendants of the Black...
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    Retrieved August 5, 2015. The oldest gravestone is in the Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (1752) Webster as cited by bluepete, p. 371 John Faragher...
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  • Old Burying Ground may refer to: in Canada Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia) in the United States (by state) Old Burying Ground (Brookline, Massachusetts)...
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    (Scottish Gaelic: Taigh na Roinne) in Halifax is where the Nova Scotia legislative assembly, known officially as the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, has met every...
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    moved from Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, to the newly established Halifax, Nova Scotia (1749). The warfare ended with the Burying the Hatchet ceremony (1761)...
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    The Old Parish Burying Ground is the oldest protestant cemetery in Windsor, Nova Scotia and one of the oldest in Canada. The graveyard was located adjacent...
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    , K. H. died at Government House and was later buried at the Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia). The first royal resident was Prince Edward, Prince...
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    House estate by Bishop Hibbert Binney. The church used the Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia). The church was originally an amalgam of various dissenting...
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    military properties situated around the strategic Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia. HMC Dockyard Halifax was acquired by the Canadian government from the...
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    Erasmus James Philipps (category Nova Scotia pre-Confederation MLAs)
    known settler of Nova Scotia (c. 1721) who was buried in the Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia). Philipps was born in London. He was well educated...
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    is an evangelical Anglican church in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, within the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island of the Anglican Church...
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    returned to Nova Scotia in 1820). There are many Loyalists who settled in Halifax and were buried in the Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia), including...
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    Shelburne. There are several Black Loyalists buried in unmarked graves in the Old Burying Ground in Halifax. Many Nova Scotian communities were settled by British...
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    Samuel Cunard (category People from Halifax, Nova Scotia)
    28 April 1865), was a British-Canadian shipping magnate, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard Line, establishing the first scheduled steamship...
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    Island, Nova Scotia. Stoddard allowed the British crew to return to Halifax in HMS Observer (which was involved in the Naval battle off Halifax en route)...
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    Halifax City Hall is the home of municipal government in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Designed by architect Edward Elliot, and constructed for the City...
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    British ship HMS Royal Oak to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where his body was interred on 29 September 1814 in the Old Burying Ground. In Ross's home village of...
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    South Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada. Founded in 1753, the town was one of the first British attempts to settle Protestants in Nova Scotia. The economy was...
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    because it was one of only two British settlements in Nova Scotia prior to the establishment of Halifax (1749). Canso played a key role in the defeat of Fortress...
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    in Halifax. He is buried in the Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia). "Item". Library and Archives Canada. 13 June 2013. Public Archives of Nova Scotia...
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    provincial Grand Master for Nova Scotia; Philipps founded the first Masonic lodge in Canada at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. Other lodges in the colony...
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  • Archived 2019-05-05 at the Wayback Machine Sketch of the Old Parish Burying Ground of Windsor, Nova Scotia By Henry Youle Hind. 1888. Joshua M. Smith, Borderland...
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    of his life were spent in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he died and is buried in the Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia). John James Snodgrass was...
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    (1934–1942) at age 37 Alexander Keith – Mayor of Halifax (1853–1853), President of Legislative Council of Nova Scotia (1867–1873), Founder of Alexander Keith's...
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    Wellesley, Royal Navy Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia), (1850) Alexander Milne, Trent Affair, American Civil War; served at Halifax (1860–64) Milne's...
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    Paul Mascarene (category Governors of the Colony of Nova Scotia)
    Commissary General at Halifax Nova Scotia Historical Society, Halifax (1891). Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society. Nova Scotia Historical Society...
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    Citadel Hill is a hill that is a National Historic Site in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Four fortifications have been constructed on Citadel Hill since...
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