Cemetery volunteers looking for more hands, donations
A group of volunteers who spend their Saturdays helping stabilize gravestones at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Halifax are looking for more hands and some additional dollars to help finish the next phase of their project.
[August 17, 2011 | Halifax News Net]
Fountain Academy of Sacred Heart School on CTV News
Fountain Academy of Sacred Heart - High School Students (Grade 11 & 12) doing volunteer work at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
[May 12, 2010: CTV : YouTube Posting by jgkho EXTERNAL LINK]
3 charged in cemetery vandalism
Two adults and one youth have been charged with mischief after two crosses were ripped off headstones in a historic graveyard in south-end Halifax over the weekend.
[March 15, 2010: CBC News]
Graveyard gets much-needed care after years of neglect
A group of citizens is working to restore Halifax’s Holy Cross Cemetery, which has been hit hard by vandals in recent years.By
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Nov. 11, 2009: The Weekly News
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Ambassador Visits Holy Cross Cemetery
HOLY CROSS cemetery lies in the shadow of Fenwick Tower. The oldest Catholic burying ground in Halifax is littered with toppled tombs and broken gravestones.
[August 2, 2008, Halifax Herald, JON TATTRIE]
Cemetery Being Resurrected
HOLY CROSS cemetery lies in the shadow of Fenwick Tower. The oldest Catholic burying ground in Halifax is littered with toppled tombs and broken gravestones.
[August 2, 2008: Halifax Herald]
Trust Looks to Refurbish Historical Cemetery [PDF]
[March 2008: The Atlantic Catholic]
