FREDERICTON --
The City of Fredericton is working with experts to carefully restore and preserve the gravestones that make up the Old Loyalist Burial Ground in the city’s centre.
Weather, vandalism and time have caused some of the stones to fall, crumble and sink into the ground, making most of their engravings illegible.
Archaeologist and burial ground specialist Robyn Lacy has been contracted by the city to assess each stone and create a plan for how to delicately repair them.
"I’d say it’s very important," she said. "Gravestones are part of everyone’s family histories, they tell us a lot about where a community came from. You can learn a lot about individual families and people as a whole."