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
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![Johann Gottlob Schmeisser, 2nd minister (1782–1808), Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (Lunenburg)[5][6]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/JohannGottlobSchmeisser.png/84px-JohannGottlobSchmeisser.png)
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]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Ferdinand_Conrad_Temme%2C_Lunenburg%2C_Nova_Scotia.png/91px-Ferdinand_Conrad_Temme%2C_Lunenburg%2C_Nova_Scotia.png)
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
![Johann Gottlob Schmeisser, 2nd minister (1782–1808), Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (Lunenburg)[5][6]](/wiki/File:JohannGottlobSchmeisser.png)
![Ferdinand Conrad Temme, 3rd minister (1808–1832), Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (Lunenburg)[7]](/wiki/File:Ferdinand_Conrad_Temme,_Lunenburg,_Nova_Scotia.png)
- 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]
See also
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edit- ^ Nova Scotia Archives
- ^ Lunenburg Academy – Historic Places
- ^ Commonwealth War Graves Hillcrest Cemetery
- ^ Canadian Fallen
- ^ Nova Scotia Archives
- ^ * Miss A. Creighton, "An Unforeclosed Mortgage," Acadiensis, October, 1905, p. 297
- ^ Nova Scotia Archives
- ^ Canadian Biography
- ^ Nova Archives
- ^ p. 185
- ^ "Teaser ship citations in the ship database".
