Monday, July 12, 2010

HRM Monument #7: Founder's Cairn



Unveiled by the Natal Day (the annual celebration of the birth of Halifax-Dartmouth) Committee on August 6, 1941, this stone monument commemorates the landing of the 353 settlers of the ship "Alderney" to found the town of Dartmouth in 1750. It is located at the top of the hill in Leighton Dillman Park.

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