Established 1844 Country Canada Founded 1844 Phone +1 902-490-4883 | Location Halifax, Nova Scotia Type Public Province Nova Scotia | |
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Owned by Halifax Regional Municipality Address 1600 Summer St, Halifax, NS B3H 3A6, Canada Owner Halifax Regional Municipality Burials Joseph Howe, Viola Desmond, Alexander Keith Similar Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax Common, St Paul's Church, Halifax Public Gardens | ||
Camp hill cemetery
Camp Hill Cemetery is a cemetery within Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is located on Camp Hill, adjacent to Robie Street.
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History
In 1844, Camp Hill replaced the city's first cemetery, the Old Burying Ground, which had been established almost 100 years earlier in 1749. Originally run by a private company, the cemetery is now owned and administered by the Halifax Regional Municipality.
As a cemetery in the provincial capital, Camp Hill became the final resting place for many of Nova Scotia's elite. Officials allowed for the burial of Black Canadians in a segregated section of the cemetery. Initially, the resting places of African-Canadian veterans of World War I, unlike other white Canadian veterans, were marked with only flat white stones. This situation has been rectified by the federal department of Veterans Affairs.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintains the war graves of 10 service personnel of World War I and over 80 of World War II.
There are also 17 graves of Norwegian sailors, soldiers and merchant seamen in Camp Hill Cemetery who died in Nova Scotia during World War II. These men were at sea when Germany invaded Norway in 1940. The King and government of Norway ordered the more than 1,000 ships at sea to go to Allied ports.
For many years the cemetery contained a traffic light. The traffic light for the intersection of Robie Street and Jubilee Road was located in the northwest corner of the cemetery, creating a popular boast that Halifax was the only city in the world with a traffic light in a cemetery. However, in 2008 the traffic light was moved outside the cemetery fence.