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The Pioneer Cemetery of the first Mission Church of St. Ann’s in Hope River was located on land donated by Patrick Fleming of the Hope River Road. It measured 108’ x 95’ and served the people until the late 1850’s. Only one stone remains. It is that of Angus Fraser who died in 1858 at the age of 38 years. It is believed that there are about one hundred people buried in the

cemetery.

In 1981 the parishioners of St. Ann’s Parish Hope River erected a memorial at this site which reads as follows:

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE NOBLE IRISH, SCOTTISH AND ACADIAN PIONEERS WHO SETTLED THIS COUNTRYSIDE AND PLANTED THE SEEDS OF FAITH THAT CONTINUE TO NOURISH THEIR DESCENDANTS

THIS MEMORIAL ERECTED IN THEIR HONOR BY THE PARISHIONERS OF ST. ANN’S PARISH HOPE RIVER 1982

The present St. Ann’s Cemetery is situated on the north side of the present church. Adjoining parcels of land were purchased in 1903, 1919 and in 1962‘ In 1985, an archway, donated by Rev. Dr. F.W.P. Bolger, was erected in memory of his parents. A cemetery vault was built in

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