The Hillcrest Cemetery is the oldest protestant cemetery in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and one of the oldest in Canada.Nova Scotia Archives The cemetery is adjacent to the Lunenburg Academy.Lunenburg Academy – Historic Places 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). Commonwealth War Graves Hillcrest CemeteryCanadian Fallen
Notable interments
Honourable William RudolfCanadian BiographyNova Archives 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))p. 185 Capt. J. F. McGregor
See also Little Dutch (Deutsch) Church Garrison Cemetery (Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia) Royal Navy Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Old Parish Burying Ground (Windsor, Nova Scotia)
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Nova Scotia Archives Miss A. Creighton, "An Unforeclosed Mortgage," Acadiensis, October, 1905