Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Bard John MacLean Cemetery
James River, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- cemetery
- Year built
- 1848
- Decade built
- 1840-1849
- Cultural association
- Scottish, Gaelic
- Notice of registration date
- 3 April 1986
- Civic address
- 489 Highway 4
- Community
- James River
- County
- Antigonish
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.57396, -62.15258
- File number
- Prov_file_45
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1764 map "L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1764 · L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Pictou Co., N.S. (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)
- 1901 · Eastern Half of Nova Scotia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
is the burial site for Bard John MacLean, the most representative Gaelic Bard of the New World and the Reverend Alexander MacLean Sinclair, the greatest Gaelic scholar born on Canadian soil; and is considered to be an integral part of the property known as the Bard John MacLean House.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Bard John MacLean Cemetery include:
- post and chain fencing along Highway No. 4;
- mature trees located throughout the cemetery;
- original and historic grave stones and monuments, with their surviving inscriptions in both English and Scottish Gaelic;
- grass-covered interment areas;
- location adjacent to the Bard John MacLean House property.