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Deadman’s Island Park is a Canadian urban park located on Deadman’s Island in the Northwest Arm of Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia’s Halifax Regional Municipality.The park was created in 2005 to protect the property from development as it is the location of the unmarked graves of 195 American soldiers and sailors who died in British captivity during the War of 1812 at a prison on nearby Melville Island.An interpretive plaque in the park contains the following anonymous poem:Go view the graves which prisoners fillGo count them on the rising hillNo monumental marble showsWhose silent dust does there repose.The dead were among the more than 8000 American captives imprisoned for various periods of time on Melville Island now part of the Armdale Yacht Club.
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