The Culvie Farm property was purchased for that purpose on 20 June 1893,by Abraham Michaels a local merchant who had lost his partner and with no Jewish cemetery had to ship hhim to NYC for burial, and the land was consecrated on 30 July 1893.

The city provided additional property, but some original memorial walls had to be disassembled and moved.

[1] Of the 209 bodies recovered after the sinking of the RMS Titanic in April 1912, 150 were buried in Halifax cemeteries.

The others were the Titanic's saloon steward Frederick William Wormald and passenger Michel Navratil, Sr.

Wormald was Church of England and Navratil, who had boarded the ship under the name "Louis M. Hoffman", was Catholic.