Cemeteries as Community Heritage
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Cemeteries as Community Heritage

Save Our Historic Cemeteries!

Date and time

Thursday, November 21 · 9:30am - 12pm NST

Location

Heart's Content Regional Centre for the Arts

251 Main Road Heart's Content, NL A0B 1Z0 Canada

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours 30 minutes

Come learn about how your community can take action to conserve historic cemeteries. Includes speakers from Heritage NL, MUN Folklore, and Trinity Historical Society.


Thursday, November 21st

9:30am - 12:00pm

Heart's Content Regional Centre for the Arts (former Heyfield Memorial Church)

Heart’s Content Registered Heritage District, NL

Directions: https://maps.app.goo.gl/1mkEja8nYGo75uvF7


Itinerary

9:30am - Doors open, tea and coffee

10am - Session start

Introduction: Dale Jarvis, Heritage NL

Before You Start Cleanup - Planning and Municipal Cemetery Designation: Andrea O'Brien, Heritage NL

Update on Heart's Content Cemetery Documentation: Juliet Lanphear, Heritage NL

What is Cemetery Tourism?: Katie Crane, MUN Folklore

Adopt a Headstone Project, St. Paul’s Anglican Cemetery: Jim Miller, Trinity Historical Society

11:30am Questions, general discussion, and wrap-up


This is a free event, and open to the general public, but pre-registration is required.

Organized by

Historic Places. Living Heritage.