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St. John's Cemetery, Halifax

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St. John's Cemetery, Halifax

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. Opened in 1839, it is the final resting place for a few prominent Anglicans in Halifax: Canadian Prime Minister Sir

Charles Tupper Father of Confederation John William Ritchie 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. It is also the resting place of many people killed by the 1917 Halifax Explosion, as well as for the Reverend Henry Ward Cunningham who was involved in the retrieval of bodies and conducted burial services at sea for the victims. A columbarium was added in 1994 on the site of the former St. Johns Anglican Church of Fairview.

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