Photographs of Iron Cross
Official dedication at original location: 19 August 1924
Official dedication at new location: 28 July 2005
Monument
Horton Landing Kings County Nova Scotia
GPS location: 45°06’49″N 64°16’42″W
(See map below)
The Planters monument with a stake marking the new location for the Iron Cross.
Photographed on 20 June 2005
The new Iron Cross location is between the monument and the historic dead tree.
Photographed on 20 June 2005
The Iron Cross being installed at its new location.
Photographed on 9 July 2005
Photographed on 9 July 2005
Photographed on 9 July 2005
Photographed on 9 July 2005
Photographed on 9 July 2005
Photographed on 9 July 2005
The dead tree in 2003 (most of its bark still on).
Photographed on 21 May 2003
Photographed on 24 July 2005
Photographed on 24 July 2005
Photographed on 24 July 2005
Photographed on 24 July 2005
Photographed on 28 July 2005 5:13pm
Photographed on 28 July 2005 5:30pm
Photographed on 28 July 2005 5:34pm
Photographed on 28 July 2005 5:57pm
Photographed on 28 July 2005 6:00pm
Photographed on 28 July 2005 6:13pm
Above: Photographs taken at new location
New GPS location: 45°06’48″N 64°16’46″W
Installed at new location in July 2005
Below: Photographs taken at old location
Old (original) GPS location: 45°06’44″N 64°17’26″W
Old location, on railway right-of-way, August 1924 to June 2005
The Iron Cross, as it appeared in 2003 in its original location.
Photographed on 7 July 2003
The bare patch of ground where the Iron Cross stood 1924-2005.
Photographed on 20 June 2005
The Iron Cross, that stood near the railway for 81 years, is gone.
Photographed on 20 June 2005
Photographed on 18 May 2003
Photographed on 7 July 2003
The Iron Cross is painted black all over. At 6:28am on July 7th, light from the
rising sun glints from the fresh paint to give the appearance that it is white.
Photographed on 7 July 2003
Looking northward with Cape Blomindon in the background
Photographed on 7 July 2003
Plaque on the Iron Cross monument
Photographed on 7 July 2003
Windsor & Hantsport Railway
Eastbound freight train with eight empty grain cars approaching (above)
and passing (below) the Iron Cross monument, 5:56pm 7 July 2003
Eastbound freight train with eight empty grain cars approaching (above)
and passing (below) the Iron Cross monument, 5:56pm 7 July 2003
Looking eastward in the early evening, along the
old main line track of the Dominion Atlantic Railway,
twenty minutes after the freight train had passed
Photographed on 7 July 2003
Map showing the location of the Iron Cross monument
Horton Landing, Kings County, Nova Scotia
Roads are shown as they were in 1956. Except for Highway 101, the
layout of the roads in 2006 has not changed much from that shown here.
Acadian memorial being moved CBC, 24 June 2005
Screenshot captured 27 November 2007
Note: In the CBC article, there is a reference to “The rusty cross…”. Thisisfiction. The Iron Cross, in its original location, was very well maintained, and had recently been freshly painted where it stood. There was no “rust” to be seen (seephotographs above).
Planter 2010 Celebration in Nova Scotia
Deportation Cross St. Martinville, Louisiana
…A series of commemorative cross monuments will be designed and unveiled
in Atlantic Canada, the United States, France, England, the Caribbean
and Quebec, to mark those sites where Acadians landed after the Deportation…
http://www.acadianmemorial.org/english/deportationcross.html
The Acadian memorial in St. Martinville has been honoured
by Parks Canada as the first of several international sites for
a replica of the Grand Pre Deportation Cross (pictured).
The original cross is in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, and marks
the site of the embarkation of the Acadians in 1755.
A series of commemorative cross monuments will be
designed and unveiled in Canada, the United States,
France, England, the Caribbean, and Quebec. These
sites are where the Acadians landed after the deportation.
— Cajun Life and Times, issue 33
http://www.cajunlifeandtimes.com/lagniappe_issue33.htm
Replica Revives History: St. Martinville Cross Honors Grand Pre Exile
by Jim Bradshaw, The Daily Advertiser, Lafayette, Louisiana, 10 June 2003
…(The Grand Pre) cross memorializes events of early September 1755,
when transport ships began to assemble off of a shallow, marshy spit of land
near Grand Pre, Nova Scotia. They were there to receive longboats laden with
hundreds of Acadians who had been forcibly evicted from their ancestral lands
and were to be scattered around the world as penniless exiles. Nearly 170 years
later, in 1924, a large iron cross was dedicated at that embarkation point
about a mile from the Grand Pre church. Now, nearly 250 years later, an exact
duplicate stands next to Bayou Teche, where many of those exiled families
eventually found new homes. The cross in St. Martinville is the first of ten…
http://www.acadiananow.com/news/html/
CE5149E5-CA67-42B7-B1F1-CBB846332DD9.shtml
Workers lower the 20-foot Grand Pre replica
into place Monday [June 9th, 2003] along the banks
of the Bayou Teche in St. Martinville, Louisiana.
The Daily Advertiser, Lafayette, 10 June 2003
St. Martinville Honored as Memorial Cross Site
Editorial in The Advertiser, Lafayette, Louisiana, 15 June 2003
…In 1924, a large iron cross was dedicated at a point near Grand Pre,
where British ships carried the Acadians away from their land and in
many cases from family members. The cross blessed by Bishop Jarrell
today is a replica of that one. St. Martinville is the appropriate
place for the first of ten such replicas to be placed at points where
Acadians ended their tragic journey…
http://www.acadiananow.com/ouropinion/html/
4BC5958C-DCD3-4D7C-9C17-4722AB142C8B.shtml
Acadians Memorialize Ancestors’ Tribulations
The Advocate (daily newspaper), Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 16 June 2003
…More than two centuries later, a simple iron cross stands beside
St. Charles Catholic Church in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, as a memorial to
Le Grande Derangement, the 1755 deportation of the Acadians. Last week,
a replica of that cross was erected in the garden of the Acadian Memorial
in St. Martinville, Louisiana. On Sunday [June 15th, 2003] it was blessed
by the bishop of Lafayette and dedicated during a solemn ceremony in the
church built by the first Acadians who arrived here. St. Martinville’s cross is
the first of 37 planned for sites around the world where those deported
Acadians were dropped in 1755: England, France, the East Coast of America
and the islands in the Caribbean, said Christy Dugas Maraist, president of
the Acadian Memorial Foundation…
http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/061603/new_acadian001.shtml
New Iron Cross replica at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana
The Advocate, Baton Rouge, 16 June 2003
Note: The statement “a simple iron cross stands beside St. Charles
Catholic Church in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia” is a bit misleading.
If you go to the church in expectation that you will find the Iron Cross
close by, you will be disappointed. They are more than a mile apart.
The Iron Cross is located at 45°06’48″N64°16’46″W while
the church is at 45°06’35″N64°18’44″W (both are GPS positions).
Thus the Iron Cross is 2.61 km (1.62 miles) from the Grand Pre church.
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