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Victoria Park
Victoria Park
Interactive map of Victoria Park
Type	Public park
Location	Halifax,Nova Scotia
Operated by	Halifax Regional Municipality

Victoria Park is an urban park onSpring Garden Road inHalifax,Nova Scotia, Canada, across from theHalifax Public Gardens.

TheNorth British Society erected various monuments and statues:Robert Burns, SirWalter Scott andWilliam Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling.^[1]

At the south end of the parkSidney Culverwell Oland created a fountain in memory of his wife Linda Oland (1966).^[2]

George A. Lawson created the memorial toRobert Burns inAyr, inaugurated in 1892. Other versions were circulated to Dublin, Melbourne, Montreal, Winnipeg, Halifax and elsewhere. The statue was cast in Halifax in 1919. On the base of the Rabbie Burns statue are commemorations of the following poems:

• Front:The Cotter's Saturday Night – “From scenes like these old Scotia’s grandeur springs.” (1786).^[3] A "Cotter" (a peasant given a Cottage in exchange for labour) and his family relax on Saturday evening, after a week of work, knowing Sunday is a day of rest.
• Right:Tam O’Shanter’s Ride – “Ae spring brought off her master hale but left behind her ain grey tail.” (1791) One of Burns most famous poems. A sculpture of the final scene when Tam O'Shanter safely reachesBrig o' Doon after almost being captured bywitches.
• Left:The Jolly Beggars : Love and Liberty - A Cantata (1785)^[4] Scene of a group ofAyrshirevagrants drinking one night inPoosie Nansie’s tavern inMauchline. Amaimed homeless veteran sings a song of his long service, fighting first in theBattle of the Plains of Abraham ("the heights of Abram")
• Back:To a Mountain Daisy, On Turning one Down, With The Plough, in April 1786 – “Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow’r; Thou’s met me in a evil hour.” (1786) Scene of a farmer using the fate of a ploughed under flower (Bellis perennis) as a metaphor for life.

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  Rabbie Burns byGeorge A. Lawson (1919)
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  Tam O’Shanter’s Ride, Robbie Burns Statue
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  To a Mountain Daisy, Robbie Burns Statue
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  The Jolly Baggers, Robbie Burns Statue
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  The Cotter's Saturday Night, Robbie Burns Statue

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  SirWalter Scott by SirFrancis Chantrey (1932)
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  William Alexander Monument, built of stones from hisMenstrie Castle (1957) (also seeEdinburgh Castle)
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  Sidney Culverwell Oland's Memorial Fountain to his wife (1966)

• Royal eponyms in Canada
• List of Robert Burns memorials

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