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Welsford-Parker
Monument

Crimean War
1853 – 1856

A rare pre-Confederation war memorial

Officially unveiled 17 July 1860

Old Burying Ground
Halifax
Nova Scotia

Located on the west side of Barrington Street, south of Spring Garden Road

GPS location:   44°38'37"N   63°34'20"W

Crimean war memorial monument

Photographed on 13 May 2005

Crimean war memorial monument

Photographed on 20 October 2003

Crimean war memorial monument

Photographed on 13 May 2005

Inscription: upper east face

Sebastopol Alma Redan

The photograph above has been digitally enhanced to show details more clearly.
Photographed on 28 November 2002

Major A.F. Welsford	Captain W.B.C.A. Parker
Photographed on 20 October 2003

The village of Welsford, a small community in New Brunswick along Route 7,
halfway between Saint John and Fredericton, was named in memory of
Major A.F. Welsford of the British 97th Regiment, who was killed on
8th September 1855 in the storming of the Redan at Sebastopol.
Source: http://www.unb.ca/nbmhp/02_NBMHPsites.htm

Crimean war memorial monument, looking northeast

Photographed on 28 November 2002

Crimean war memorial monument, west face

Photographed on 28 November 2002

Inscription: west face

Inkerman Balaklava Tchernaya

Photographed on 28 November 2002

Photographed on 28 November 2002

Photographed on 28 November 2002

Map: Crimean War (1853-1856)
Source: http://www.batteryb.com/Crimean_War/index2.htm

Crimean War Monument, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Source: Canadian Illustrated News, 29 April 1871
Reproduced from the National Library of Canada's website
http:www.nlc-bnc.ca/

Crimean War Monument, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Through the 1800s and into the early 1900s, Barrington Street as we now know it had
four names, Pleasant Street (the south end), Barrington Street, Lockman Street and
Campbell Road (the north end). About 1920 it was all changed to Barrington Street.
Before the name change, Pleasant Street was the section south from Spring Garden Road.

Used postcards usually can be dated by the postmark. Unused postcards, like this one,
are more difficult to date. Various details of the postcard's design can be used to narrow the
possible date of any particular postcard. This postcard has a divided back (a line printed down
the middle to separate the address space from the message space). Divided-back postcards
appeared in 1902 in England, 1904 in France, 1905 in Germany, and 1907 in the United States.
Cards before these dates have undivided backs.

This postcard probably was printed after 1902 and before 1920.
It was published by Valentine & Sons Publishing Company Limited.
[Above written 30 April 2004]

[Written 18 May 2004]: Another of these postcards – found in La Pocatiere, Quebec –
is now known to exist. It was postmarked from Darmouth, Nova Scotia, on 21 March 1908.
This postcard can now be dated as having been printed before 1908.

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