St Pauls Cemetary Halifax Canada by lucindawind

Photography • Landscape • posted on Jun 22, 2010

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I took this photo when I was there visiting my mother and sister...postwork CS2 PS the flower I added yesterday is called ... Salsifis d'Orient... its a cousin of the dandelion and much bigger Old St. Paul's Cemetery was founded in 1749, the same year the city of Halifax was founded, and is therefore the province's first official burial ground. Over the years, some 12,000 people were buried there, even though there only are about 1,200 headstones (so about 10%) marking people's graves in the cemetery, the main reason being that many were buried without headstones, the other reason being that after the last burial, which took place in 1843, the burying ground slowly fell into disrepair, until the Old Burying Ground Foundation undertook the rather grueling task of restoring the cemetery.

Comments (20)

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DAVER2112

8:55AM | Tue, 22 June 2010

Excellent shot and postwork. :)

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MrsRatbag

9:01AM | Tue, 22 June 2010

Nicely captured! It looks like a lovely place!

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tennesseecowgirl

9:30AM | Tue, 22 June 2010

the post work looks great.....

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Meisiekind

10:45AM | Tue, 22 June 2010

Lovely shot and postwork Lu!

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0rest4wicked

11:15AM | Tue, 22 June 2010

Nice POV and postwork!

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cfulton

11:26AM | Tue, 22 June 2010

Great work on this one! Clive

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carlx

12:01PM | Tue, 22 June 2010

Fantastic capture, tones and light!!!

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jmb007

12:01PM | Tue, 22 June 2010

bonne photo!

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jendellas

12:37PM | Tue, 22 June 2010

It looks like it is being looked after, lovely capture!!!!

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flora-crassella

1:55PM | Tue, 22 June 2010

great and interesting shot!

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durleybeachbum

2:10PM | Tue, 22 June 2010

Fascinating pic and information.

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Richardphotos

3:05PM | Tue, 22 June 2010

mapps lives there also,Halifax not the cemetery!! I like reading head stones at old cemeteries.gives a sense of people that were buried there

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unstart

3:33PM | Tue, 22 June 2010

What a beautiful old cemetary!!

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wysiwig

4:36PM | Tue, 22 June 2010

Golden lads and lassies must, as chimney sweeps, come to dust. ~R. Burns Something sad about old stones. No one left to care for them. Glad to see that someone has restored this old burial ground. An excellent capture, a moment out of time. Wonderful composition with no hint of twenty-first century modernity.

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