Victoria Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Victoria Park
275px Victoria Park
Type	Public park
Location	Halifax, Nova Scotia
Operated by	Halifax Regional Municipality

Victoria Park is an urban park on Spring Garden Road in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, across from the Halifax Public Gardens.

The North British Society erected various monuments and statues: Robbie Burns, Sir Walter Scott and William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling.

At the south end of the park is the Colonel Sidney C. Oland Memorial Fountain.

Gallery

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  Robbie Burns by George A. Lawson (1919)

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  Sir Walter Scott by Sir Francis Chantrey (1932)

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  William Alexander Monument, built of stones from his Menstrie Castle (1957)

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  Oland Memorial Fountain

On the base of the Robbie Burns statue are commemorations of the following poems:

• Front: The Cotter’s Saturday Night – “From scenes like these old Scotia’s grandeur springs.”
• Right: Tam O’Shanter’s Ride – “Ae spring brought off her master hale but left behind her ain grey tail.”
• Left: The Jolly Baggers
• Back: To a Mountain Daisy – “Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow’r; Thou’s met me in a evil hour.”

External links

• William Alexander monument