Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Canard Burial Grounds
Upper Canard, Kings, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- cemetery
- Notice of registration date
- 18 September 2025
- Civic address
- No. 341 Highway
- Community
- Upper Canard
- County
- Kings
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.12589, -64.46906
- File number
- Prov_file_319
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Lunenburg Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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 Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · Counties of Westmorland and Albert, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime… (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
of its heritage value based on its age, personage association and collection of monuments and its character-defining elements; which include its: location in the rural community of Upper Canard; and numerous historic monuments of at least 100 years old.
Nearby in the register
- Jonathan Shearman House (formerly Eaton House)residenceunder 1 mi
- Chipman Corner Cemeterycemetery2 mi
- CarwardenB&B2 mi
- St. John's Anglican Church & Cemeterychurch2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.