The Hillcrest Cemetery is the oldest protestant cemetery in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and one of the oldest in Canada.[1] The cemetery is adjacent to the Lunenburg Academy.[2] The oldest marker is dated 1761, eight years after Lunenburg was established. Hillcrest Cemetery contains 5 Commonwealth war graves from World War I and one from World War II (along with 4 Norwegian war graves from Camp Norway).[3][4]
Notable interments
Johann Gottlob Schmeisser, 2nd minister (1782–1808), Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (Lunenburg)[5][6]
Ferdinand Conrad Temme, 3rd minister (1808–1832), Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (Lunenburg)[7]
Charles Ernst Cossman, 4th minister (1835–1876), Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (Lunenburg)
Beamish Murdoch, Historian
- Honourable William Rudolf[8][9]
- Rev. Joshua Wingate Weeks (d. 1852), St. Peter's Church, West LaHave Ferry (Grandson of Rev. Joshua Wingate Weeks of St. Paul's Church (Halifax))[10]
- Capt. J. F. McGregor[11]
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