Mayor’s Monday Mailbag – Nov. 6, 2023 – What's Being Done to Fix the Union Burying Ground in Burlington?

Welcome to the Mayor’s Monday Mailbag, an initiative Burlington Mayor Marianne Meed Ward and the Mayor’s Office launched to share weekly answers to questions from the public we’ve received through our main email inbox at mayor@burlington.ca or the Mayor’s social media platforms.At the end of the month, we publish a roundup of those most pressing questions we’ve received in the weeks prior.Mayor’s Monday Mailbag – Nov. 6, 2023QUESTION:"Is anything being done to fix the United Empire Loyalist Cemetery/Union Burying Ground on Plains Road?”ANSWER:The Union Burying Ground (UBG)/United Empire Loyalist Cemetery is located at 1001 Plains Rd. E., and is more than 150 year old. It has a deep history and connection with the United Empire Loyalists’ Association of Canada, going back to the time Americans fleeing from the U.S. to honour their allegiance to the Crown when the American Revolution began. A Loyalist burial site sign was unveiled at the cemetery in 2009. UBG is the final resting place for two veterans of the War of 1812: Private Asahel Davis and Thomas Ghent.The UBG cemetery land is owned by the cemetery trustees. The City of Burlington recently entered into an agreement with the trustees to take over care and maintenance of the cemetery. The City has already been on-site inspecting the wall, trees, monuments, and other pieces of the cemetery grounds and is working to repair them. City staff have noted that the work will take some time to complete, however, the work has already commenced to bring the cemetery lands back to good repair.

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