Source: CBC.ca/Josh Hoffman
Dr. Jonathan Fowler, an Anthropology professor at Saint Mary’s, is using ground-penetrating radar at the Old Burying Ground in Halifax. He and his team will use the data to create an interactive map that unveils the history of the people buried there.
“For the first time, we’re coming through here with surveying gear and very high precision GPS equipment, and we’ve mapped…over 1,200 stones,” says Fowler in a video interview with CBC in September 2024. He explains that there is a 1:10 ratio for headstone markers to people buried at the Grounds.
Learn more about this work and its importance to Halifax’s history at CBC.ca.