History: 19c Canada

Hall, R. & Bowden, B. 1986

‘Beautifying the boneyard: the changing image of the cemetery in nineteenth-century Ontario’, Material Culture Review, 23, 13-24.

Jarvis, D. 2013

‘Newfoundland lychgates’, The Newfoundland Ancestor, 29:2, 64-67.

Murphy, T 2018

‘“Religion walked forth in all her majesty”: the opening of Holy Cross Cemetery and the transformation of Halifax Catholicism’, Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, 18, 77-88. .

Watkins, M. 2002

‘The cemetery and cultural memory: Montreal, 1860-1900’, Urban History Review/Revue d’Histoire Urbaine, 31:1, 52-62.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract