Garrison Cemetery at Fort Anne
by Jurgen Lorenzen
Title
Garrison Cemetery at Fort Anne
Artist
Jurgen Lorenzen
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
There are 234 headstones on the Garriso Cemetery site in what's believed to be the British cemetery. The earliest stone was erected in 1720 and is the oldest known gravestone with a British inscription in Canada.
But it's also believed there are 2,000 people buried at Fort Anne in an Acadian burial ground with no visible traces.Fort Anne is located in Annapolis Royal, N.S., and became a national historic site in 1917. It's considered one of the most hotly contested sites in North American history, having changed hands seven times, between the Scottish, British and French.
It's also the birthplace of the Acadian culture, since governor Charles de Menou d'Aulnay arrived there in 1636.
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July 3rd, 2019
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