Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Robie Street Cemetery
Truro, Colchester, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- cemtery
- Year built
- 1761
- Decade built
- 1760-1769
- Notice of registration date
- 29 August 2008
- Civic address
- 125 Robie Street
- Community
- Truro
- County
- Colchester
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.37032, -63.30977
- File number
- Prov_file_272
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Pictou Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Pictou Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Colchester, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Pictou, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Cumberland, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
its cultural value; its claimed association of Presbyterianism in Nova Scotia and Canada and being the burial place of notable Nova Scotians, including a Father of Confederation. Also, because of its character defining elements, including: land form, including surface contours, discernability from surrounding land and laterly developed sections of overall cemetery; pathways; healthy and mature trees; period burial monuments of corresponding character, design and materials; individual grave site boundaries and fences and former site of an early Presbyterian meeting house.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Robie Street Cemetery relate to its use as a cemetery and include:
- land form including surface contours, discernability for surrounding land and latterly developed sections of overall cemetery;
- pathways;
- mature trees;
- period monuments of corresponding character, design and materials;
- individual grave site boundaries and fences;
- all archaeological evidence of meeting house.
Nearby in the register
- John Logan Doggett Houseresidence1 mi
- Archibald Houseresidence1 mi
- First United Churchchurch1 mi
- Old Provincial Normal Collegecommercial2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.