Barrington Street: Memorial Tower and Church Cemetery

barrington street: The Memorial Tower, on the Northwest Arm in Halifax, was dedicated on Aug. 14, 1912. 14 August, 1912 Memorial Tower, Northwest Arm, was dedicated. . . . Halifax welcomed His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, the Duke of Connaught, the first royal Governor General of Canada, to officially dedicate the Memorial Tower . . . Sir Sandford Fleming 1827-1915 ceremoniously delivered the 1908 title deeds for Sir Sandford Fleming Park to Mayor F.P. Bligh Halifax.ca/Archives . On April 16, 1908, an act of government had established the Sir Sanford Fleming Park. 15 August, 1844 St, according to The Chronicle Herald. Paul's Church Cemetery, known as the Old Burying Ground at the corner of Barrington Street and Spring Garden Road, Halifax, is closed to internment. She became the first African Nova Scotian to receive an appointment to the judiciary and the first African Canadian female to serve on the bench 1987 . Within African Nova Scotian history, Justice Sparks traces her ancestors from the events of the resettlement of the Black Loyalists around 1783 and the black refugees after 1812. It was founded in 1749 as the town's first burial ground. In 1793 it was turned over to the Anglican St. Originally it was non-denominational and for several decades was the only burial place for all Haligonians. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.