Save Our Historic Cemeteries! Come learn about how your community can take action.

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

Cemeteries as Community Heritage
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


Schedule of Events:

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 here.

After the event, from 12:00pm-1:00pm, there will be a post-session meeting with Heritage NL, Mizzen Heritage, citizens, and Town of Heart's Content to discuss next steps for the community:

• What has already been done?
• Are there burial records for the cemeteries? Where are they?
• What comes next? Who will do it?