BADDECK, N.S. — For more than a century, a large granite headstone marked the final resting place of Alexander MacLeod, his wife Sarah and other family ...
Jeffrey Parks, an antique dealer in Middle River for the past decade, examines a headstone at Centre Glen Cemetery, an abandoned pioneer cemetery in a remote area of Upper Baddeck in this October 2021 file pic. It has since fallen into the Baddeck River. Chris Connors/Cape Breton PostBADDECK, N.S. — For more than a century, a large granite headstone marked the final resting place of Alexander MacLeod, his wife Sarah and other family members.
Jeffrey Parks, a 27-year-old antique dealer from Middle River, has been visiting what is known locally as Centre Glen Cemetery for the past two years after a friend showed him the long-abandoned burial ground in Upper Baddeck.Since then, he has found several headstones in the water, including four when he was there in mid-January. One was MacLeod’s, which Parks showed the Cape Breton Post during a visit to the site in 2021.
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