Graveyard Madness

Climax of our last night in Annapolis Royal was a 9PM tour of the graveyard outside Fort Anne. This was originally an Acadian graveyard, dating from the early 1600's, subsequently used by the British. The fort changed hands seven times between the French and the British, with the Acadians civilians caught in the middle. Lots of history here. Our guide, a 10th generation Acadian, took us to historical stones and told us of the people buried here. Over 2000 graves, but only 150 or so gravestones remain. The earliest were wooden crosses, which have long since rotted, but the oldest headstone dates from more than a decade before the settlers landed in Jamestown!