Virtual Museum
Pioneer Cemetery · Visitor guide
Explore surviving markers, photographs, inscriptions and family connections in the Pioneer Cemetery records.
The Explorer combines photographs and transcriptions from the regional library with PIHS historical and family research. Source identifiers remain visible where they help visitors return to the original record.
The library’s Pictou Island Pioneer Cemetery collection, recorded in August 2013, provides the public-domain marker photographs, typed transcriptions and Plot Plan Codes used in the Explorer.
Open the NovaStory collection ↗The regional library’s plan provides the source-position identifiers used to connect records and photographs. It does not establish the physical arrangement or adjacency of stones.
Open the plot-plan PDF ↗PIHS research connects selected markers to the history of the two island cemeteries, lighthouse keeping, wartime remembrance and documented family relationships.
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