Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Old Tremont Cemetery
Tremont, Kings, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- cemetery
- Notice of registration date
- 5 April 2016
- Civic address
- Tremont Mountain Road
- Community
- Tremont
- County
- Kings
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.95135, -64.93210
- File number
- Prov_file_296
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "St. John Co., N.B." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · St. John Co., N.B. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Lunenburg Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Kings, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Saint John, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Digby, 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 significant pre-1900 markers, including Reverend Dr. Charles Tupper and Elizabeth Rhodes; and the terraced layout along the hillside. Also, the personage association of Dr. Charles Tupper, father of Sir Charles Tupper, and because it is the final resting place of seventeen children affected by the diphtheria epidemic of the late 1860s.