Victoria Park is an urban park on Spring Garden Road in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, across from the Halifax Public Gardens.
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Victoria Park | |
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Type | Public park |
Location | Halifax, Nova Scotia |
Operated by | Halifax Regional Municipality |
The North British Society erected various monuments and statues: Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott and William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling.
At the south end of the park Sidney Culverwell Oland created a fountain in memory of his wife Linda Oland (1966).
George A. Lawson created the memorial to Robert Burns in Ayr, inaugurated in 1892. Other versions were circulated to Dublin, Melbourne, Montreal, Winnipeg, Halifax and elsewhere. The statue was cast in Halifax in 1919. On the base of the Rabbie Burns statue are commemorations of the following poems:
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