Canada Guide
The Maritime Provinces
The Old Burying Ground
Address: Barrington Street and Spring Garden Road
Mysterious and spooky at dawn and dusk, the Old Burying Ground manages to look something like the opening shot of David Lean's Great Expectations despite the best efforts of the over-blown memorial by the gates in honour of a brace of Canadian officers killed in the Crimean War. Many of the tombstones are badly weathered, but enough inscriptions survive to give an insight into the lives (and early deaths) of the colonists and their offspring. The oldest tomb is that of a certain John Connor, who ran the first ferry service over to Dartmouth and died in 1754.