Court Yard
Second Boer War by Hamilton MacCarthyProvince House is flanked with two prominent statues. To the north of Province House is a Memorial Statue by Hamilton MacCarthy to the Second Boer War. On one of the panels is a sculpture of the Battle of Witpoort, made famous by the death of Nova Scotian Harold Lothrop Borden. To the south of Province House is a statue to the Honourable Joseph Howe, created by famed Quebec sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert.
On the north side of Province House is a cannon from the HMS Shannon and on the south side is a cannon of the American vessel the Shannon captured in the War of 1812, the USS Chesapeake.
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