Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Alma Cemetery
Alma, Pictou, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- cemetery
- Notice of registration date
- 22 March 2012
- Civic address
- 764 Old Alma Road
- Community
- Alma
- County
- Pictou
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.57980, -62.75063
- File number
- Prov_file_283
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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 · Outline Map of Pictou County, Nova Scotia, 1879. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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 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)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
character defining elements which include: the frontage along the Old Alma Road; the wrought iron archway; the stone retaining wall along the Old Alma Road; the historic gravestones and monuments, with their surviving inscriptions; the mature trees that separate the cemetery from the neighbouring properties and the grass-covered interment areas.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.