Victoria Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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| Victoria Park | |
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 Victoria Park | |
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| Type | Public park |
| Location | Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| Operated by | Halifax Regional Municipality |
Victoria Park is an urban park on Spring Garden Road in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, across from the Halifax Public Gardens.
The North British Society erected various monuments and statues: Rabbie Burns, Sir Walter Scott and William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling.[1]
At the south end of the park is the Sidney Culverwell Oland Memorial Fountain.[2]
Gallery
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Rabbie Burns by George A. Lawson (1919) -
Tam O’Shanter’s Ride, Robbie Burns Statue -
To a Mountain Daisy, Robbie Burns Statue -
The Jolly Baggers, Robbie Burns Statue -
The Cotter's Saturday Night, Robbie Burns Statue -
Sir Walter Scott by Sir Francis Chantrey (1932) -
William Alexander Monument, built of stones from his Menstrie Castle (1957) -
Oland Memorial Fountain
Lawson created the memorial to Robert Burns in Ayr, inaugurated in 1892. Other versions were circulated to Dublin, Melbourne, Montreal, Winnipeg, Halifax and elsewhere. On the base of the Rabbie Burns statue are commemorations of the following poems:
- Front: The Cotter’s Saturday Night – “From scenes like these old Scotia’s grandeur springs.” (1786)[3]
- Right: Tam O’Shanter’s Ride – “Ae spring brought off her master hale but left behind her ain grey tail.” (1791)
- Left: The Jolly Beggars : Love and Liberty - A Cantata (1785)[4]
- Back: To a Mountain Daisy – “Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow’r; Thou’s met me in a evil hour.” (1786)
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