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Our current project
Eastern Canada’s Unmarked Cemetery
Est. January 1, 1929 – March 4, 1957
If you know of anyone who has suffered from or is now struggling with mental health issues, please take a moment to read about this campaign.
In Eastern Canada, in St. John's, New Brunswick, on Sand Cove Road, leading to huge tourist attraction Irving National Park, sits an unmarked cemetery.
To many looking out of their vehicle windows, it would appear to be a maintained, but empty, plot of land.
A cross made out of small white stones with a wooden border and a pillowtop marker can be seen only on foot as you walk onto this plot.
The marker says, “In Memory Of The Residents From The Provincial (Psychiatric) Hospital Buried In This Cemetery. Known To God, They Rest In His Care.” Dedicated August 1987.
Lying in this unmarked cemetery are approximately 220 buried souls.
They are the ones society frowned upon, that no-one talked about or wanted to acknowledge.
At the time of their deaths, they were dealing with mental health issues; some might have been lucky enough to overcome these only to contract consumption, called tuberculosis today.
My grandmother was a young girl of 18 dealing with postpartum depression after the birth of my father, and she became a patient.
By 23 years of age, she died of tuberculosis before she could be discharged to pursue a life of happiness.
My grandmother is one of approx. 220 stories of people who are buried here.
Their final resting place consists of an empty parcel of land with no plot markers or sign visible from the road.
And yet, the men and women are buried there, in a place of shame and sadness; alive, they dealt with mental health issues that tore them from the people they love.
Must their final resting place reflect this despair as well?
Mental health awareness requires not just recognition and examination of our own present thoughts and behaviors, but to address how as a society we treated people in the past.
Our quest is to create a sign visible from the road, to memorialize the names of the people buried there, and to plant a wonderful garden in keeping with the dignified final home these lost local souls deserve, so that this cemetery might be be easily found, and so that everyone buried there is loved and not forgotten.
We ask you can send a donation from most major banks using email transfer to :
theglobalgoodwillsociety@gmail.com
Or I’ve created this GoFundMe page:
https://www.gofundme.com/eastern-canada-unmarked-cemetery&rcid=r01-153807959405-d342bd354c934a6f&pc=ot_co_campmgmt_w
Est. January 1, 1929 – March 4, 1957
If you know of anyone who has suffered from or is now struggling with mental health issues, please take a moment to read about this campaign.
In Eastern Canada, in St. John's, New Brunswick, on Sand Cove Road, leading to huge tourist attraction Irving National Park, sits an unmarked cemetery.
To many looking out of their vehicle windows, it would appear to be a maintained, but empty, plot of land.
A cross made out of small white stones with a wooden border and a pillowtop marker can be seen only on foot as you walk onto this plot.
The marker says, “In Memory Of The Residents From The Provincial (Psychiatric) Hospital Buried In This Cemetery. Known To God, They Rest In His Care.” Dedicated August 1987.
Lying in this unmarked cemetery are approximately 220 buried souls.
They are the ones society frowned upon, that no-one talked about or wanted to acknowledge.
At the time of their deaths, they were dealing with mental health issues; some might have been lucky enough to overcome these only to contract consumption, called tuberculosis today.
My grandmother was a young girl of 18 dealing with postpartum depression after the birth of my father, and she became a patient.
By 23 years of age, she died of tuberculosis before she could be discharged to pursue a life of happiness.
My grandmother is one of approx. 220 stories of people who are buried here.
Their final resting place consists of an empty parcel of land with no plot markers or sign visible from the road.
And yet, the men and women are buried there, in a place of shame and sadness; alive, they dealt with mental health issues that tore them from the people they love.
Must their final resting place reflect this despair as well?
Mental health awareness requires not just recognition and examination of our own present thoughts and behaviors, but to address how as a society we treated people in the past.
Our quest is to create a sign visible from the road, to memorialize the names of the people buried there, and to plant a wonderful garden in keeping with the dignified final home these lost local souls deserve, so that this cemetery might be be easily found, and so that everyone buried there is loved and not forgotten.
We ask you can send a donation from most major banks using email transfer to :
theglobalgoodwillsociety@gmail.com
Or I’ve created this GoFundMe page:
https://www.gofundme.com/eastern-canada-unmarked-cemetery&rcid=r01-153807959405-d342bd354c934a6f&pc=ot_co_campmgmt_w