Where best to meet the ghosts of Halifax’s past than in its oldest (British) graveyard? The Old Burying Ground (also known as St. Paul’s graveyard) begins its story in 1749, the same year Halifax was established as a British town. An astounding…

Today Halifax’s Old Burying Ground is a “park and outdoor museum,” as its National Historic Site of Canada plaque tells us. While Leititia F. Simson is actually versifying about the Old Loyalist Burying Ground in her hometown of Saint John, New…

This is Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery’s beloved red-haired heroine, talking. While Anne is usually found on rural Prince Edward Island, here she is planning a trip to Halifax’s Old Burying Ground; actually, more accurately, she is…

The Old Burying Ground is linked to world events: the War of 1812 and the Crimean War in particular. You would not be the first tourist to contemplate historical events while strolling in these grounds; in fact, you’d following the example of L.M.…

One day, Anne and her friend Priscilla Grant spend their afternoon deciphering the epitaphs on the weathered gravestones here in the Old Burying Ground. Some of the names they mention are Albert Crawford and Alexander Ross. See if you can find their…

When Halifax writer, Michael Williams, describes “a small, public park that had once been a burial ground” between Citadel Hill and the waterfront, it sounds like he’s talking about the Old Burying Ground, right? In the twenty-first century,…

When we heard from local writer Michael Williams previously, he was leaving school early to support his family. Labouring behind a warehouse’s granite walls is a kind of slow death for him—he describes choking and suffocating there. But the…