Cimetière de la Paroisse de Sainte Marie in Church Point, Nova Scotia

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Church Point, Digby County, Nova Scotia B0W 1M0 Canada

Coordinates: 44.33285, -66.11491
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Also known as the "Vieux Cimetière de la Paroisse de Sainte-Marie" or the "Old Church Point Cemetery", the cemetery is located on the eastside of Highway No. 1 (Evangeline Trail), directly across the road from Université Sainte-Anne and a few hundred feet opposite the massive Église catholique Sainte-Marie (St. Mary's Catholic Church). The parish of Sainte-Marie was founded in 1799. The church, built in 1903, is the fourth church serving the parish with the first church/chapel being built in 1774. Burials were made in the cemetery as early as the 1820s however many markers, likely made out of wood at the time, no longer exist. Until the construction of other churches along the Acadian coast, Church Point was the principal burial place for the Acadian communities from the 1700s to the mid-1800s. The cemetery property (GNS AAN# 04032217) is 7.3 acres in size and is no longer the primary cemetery for the parish as the new parish cemetery was developed 3.5 km from the church, on the Patrice Road.