Nova Scotia

On my walk at Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, I visited the memorials remembering the victims and unidentified Catholic dead who perished when a collision of the Mont-Blanc and the Imo ships in Halifax harbour triggered the largest man-made explosion before the nuclear age. On December 6, 1917, a French cargo ship […]

On my arrival at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, I visited Garrison Cemetery, among the oldest cemeteries in Canada and home to the oldest surviving English gravestone. It’s also the resting place of Rose Fortune, a Black businesswoman and Canada’s first self-appointed port constable, who kept order on the Annapolis Royal wharf for over two decades. […]

Visit Willowbank Cemetery in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and discover the remarkable story of Mona Parsons, a Canadian who joined the Dutch resistance, helped Allied airmen escape during World War II, survived Nazi imprisonment, and returned home largely unrecognized.

Visit the memorial plaque for Carl and Margaret Atwood at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto and learn how their lives helped shape writer Margaret Atwood’s imagination.

On my road trip to Digby, Nova Scotia, I visited the grave of one of Canada’s greatest folk painters, Maud Lewis. After a great deal of navigation, I arrived at a small cemetery along the roadside called North Range Cemetery, about 25 kilometres northeast of downtown Digby. Because of her small stature, Maud was buried […]

On my walk at Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, I discovered the grave of Canada’s version of John D. Rockefeller, Izaak Walton Killam.