Halifax’s oldest cemetery offers student researchers a glimpse into buried history – CityNews
May 12, 2026
HALIFAX —
The gravestones in Halifax’s oldest cemetery mark the final resting place of judges, privateers and even the British commander who had the White House set on fire two centuries ago.
Now, anthropology students at Saint Mary’s University are using 21st-century technology to scan underground and into the lives of the estimated 10,000 people buried there with no grave markers at all.
“I’ve walked past this site, the cemetery, a million times and never once really looked twice at it,” Kye Felix, an undergraduate anthropology student studying the city’s Old Burying Ground, said in an interview.
