Hillcrest Cemetery (Lunenburg, Nova Scotia)
The Hillcrest Cemetery is the oldest protestant cemetery in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and one of the oldest in Canada.[1] The cemetery is adjacent to the Lunenburg Academy.[2] The oldest marker is dated 1761, eight years after Lunenburg was established. Hillcrest Cemetery contains 5 Commonwealth war graves from World War I and one from World War II (along with 4 Norwegian war graves from Camp Norway).[3][4]
Notable interments[]
Johann Gottlob Schmeisser, 2nd minister (1782–1808), Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (Lunenburg)[5][6]
Ferdinand Conrad Temme, 3rd minister (1808–1832), Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (Lunenburg)[7]
Charles Ernst Cossman, 4th minister (1835–1876), Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (Lunenburg)
Beamish Murdoch, Historian
- Honourable William Rudolf[8][9]
- Rev. (d. 1852), St. Peter's Church, West LaHave Ferry (Grandson of Rev. Joshua Wingate Weeks of St. Paul's Church (Halifax))[10]
- Capt. J. F. McGregor[11]
See also[]
- Little Dutch (Deutsch) Church
- Garrison Cemetery (Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia)
- Royal Navy Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
- Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
- Old Parish Burying Ground (Windsor, Nova Scotia)
References[]
- ^ Nova Scotia Archives
- ^ Lunenburg Academy – Historic Places
- ^ Commonwealth War Graves Hillcrest Cemetery
- ^ Canadian Fallen
- ^ Nova Scotia Archives
- ^ * Miss A. Creighton, "An Unforeclosed Mortgage," Acadiensis, October, 1905, p. 297
- ^ Nova Scotia Archives
- ^ Canadian Biography
- ^ Nova Archives
- ^ p. 185
- ^ "Teaser ship citations in the ship database".
External links[]
- Hillcrest Cemetery at Find a Grave
- Nova Scotia Archives
- Miss A. Creighton, "An Unforeclosed Mortgage," Acadiensis, October, 1905
Coordinates: 44°22′52″N 64°18′55″W / 44.381157°N 64.315206°W
- Cemeteries in Nova Scotia