Robert Burns

Victoria Park, SPring Garden Road

A westward walk up Spring Garden Road, past many great shops, pubs and restaurants, will bring you to the intersection of Spring Garden and South Park Street.  To your right is the Public Gardens; to your left and south of Spring Garden Road is Victoria Park.  Here, standing high on a pedestal, is the Nova Scotia capital's statue of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns.

Presented to the city by the North British Society on September 13, 1919.  Cast in bronze, it is a replica of one in Ayr, Scotland, by George A. Larson.  It stands on a pedestal of Nova Scotia granite decorated with bronze bas-reliefs of scenes from Burns’ poems :   "To a Mouse", "The Cotter’s Saturday Night", "Auld Lang Syne", and "Tam o’ Shanter".