tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69598906703379046412024-03-13T05:41:23.097-07:00The Graveyard Rabbit of British Columbia, CanadaA Graveyard Rabbit GeneaBlog
© M. Diane Rogers, a Charter Member of the Association of Graveyard RabbitsM. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-62298577816680875252013-11-11T12:20:00.002-08:002013-11-11T12:24:09.609-08:00We Will Remember Them.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>John Ley Retallack<br />Major<br />Born At Marazion, Cornwall,<br />England, December 2nd 1865<br />Died at Grande Prairie, Alberta<br />October 4th 1924</i></div>
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One of the many military and veterans' graves at Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver, BC, Canada. This particular monument, impressive though it is, gives little more than a hint about Major Retallack, O.B.E.'s military past and his influence on British Columbia's economy. For more about his military life, see his entry on the <a href="http://www.retallick.co.uk/genealogy/narratives.htm" target="_blank">"Some interesting Retallicks of the past"</a> web page on the Retallick Family site.<br />
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One of my own projects now is to continue to photograph all the military and military related headstones and plaques at Mountain View Cemetery. I intend to finish this next year - and to organize all my cemetery photographs to allow me to share them easily. I'm primarily interested in seeing that the<a href="http://www.bcgs.ca/" target="_blank"> </a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">British Columbia Genealogical Society</a> has photographs of all these, but there are other projects on the go too. <br />
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The phrase <i>"We Will Remember Them"</i> is a refrain from the poem, <i>Ode to Remembrance</i>, written by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Binyon" target="_blank">Laurence Binyon</a> in Cornwall. This poem is very often recited at Remembrance Day services in Canada. (Follow the link above to Laurence Binyon's biography and the words to the poem.)<br />
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M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-14487930263948360402013-10-20T22:28:00.000-07:002013-10-20T22:28:10.931-07:00Oct 26 - Nov 1, 2013 - All Soul's Events at Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, BC <div class="day">
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All Soul's Events at <a href="http://vancouver.ca/your-government/tours-events-mountain-view-cemetery.aspx" target="_blank">Mountain View Cemetery</a>, Vancouver, BC </h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Mountain View Cemetery photograph, Vancouver, BC, Canada, M. Diane Rogers.</span></div>
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Saturday, October 26 2013</h2>
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<a href="http://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/All-Souls-garlands-October-26-2013.aspx">All Souls: Create flower garlands</a></h3>
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Saturday, October 26 2013</h2>
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Tuesday, October 29 2013</h2>
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<li class="evaddress">Mountain View Cemetery, 5455 Fraser Street</li>
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Wednesday, October 30 2013</h2>
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<li class="evtime">6:00pm to 9:00pm</li>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Mountain View Cemetery photograph, Vancouver, BC, Canada, M. Diane Rogers.</span></div>
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Friday, November 1 2013</h2>
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M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-5630071057990327512012-10-22T21:23:00.002-07:002012-10-22T21:23:22.582-07:00All Souls' Events - October 2012 at Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver BC<b>It's that time of year again - All Souls' at </b><a href="http://vancouver.ca/your-government/mountain-view-cemetery.aspx" target="_blank"><b>Vancouver's Mountain View Cemetery </b></a><b>is almost here.</b> Some activities and participants are now familiar to many, but new things will be happening too. Mountain View is Vancouver's only cemetery and is just west of Fraser St, between 31st Ave and 43rd Ave., easily accessible. <br />
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fragrant teas comfort the living</b>, and public shrines remember the
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<b><a href="http://www.thresholdchoir.ca/" target="_blank">Threshold Choir</a> performance in the Celebration Hall</b>. The
all-women Threshold Choir honours the ancient tradition of singing at
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<b>Film screening of the 2006 documentary "Forever" about Pere-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France.</b><br />
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<b>The <a href="http://www.orkestarslivovica.org/" target="_blank">Orkestar Slivovica Balkan Brass Band</a> performance and procession</b> through the shrines to honour the
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Mountain View Cemetery<br />
5455 Fraser St, Vancouver, BC<br />
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Phone: 604-325-2646<br />
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Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver - <a href="http://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/calendar-of-events.aspx?evq=all+souls+2012&mode=list&evfd=20121018&btnG=Go&evn=" target="_blank">All Souls' Calendar of Events</a>M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-60266567582389243432012-08-01T09:50:00.001-07:002012-08-01T09:50:37.906-07:00Women's History Tour - Vancouver's Mountain View Cemetery, Aug. 5, 2012It's time for another women's history tour at the City of Vancouver's Mountain View Cemetery - this Sunday, August 5th at 10 am. Meet at the Celebration Hall.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> Grave marker for Robertha (Watt) Marshall, Titanic surviver, Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, BC, Canada</i></span></div>
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For more details, see the <a href="http://www.bcgs.ca/?p=1642" target="_blank">British Columbia Genealogical Society</a> website.M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-24621842793337774342011-06-08T10:24:00.001-07:002011-06-08T10:34:26.441-07:00Cemetery Tours Coming Up - Vancouver BC<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">At Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver, BC, there will be two sets of tours this month. See you there! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">First, one on Sunday, June 19th, then another on Sunday, June 26th. Details below.<br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">J</span></span>oin John Atkin (Civic Historian) and Lorraine Irving (BC Genealogical Society) once again on their very popular walking tours. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mill </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Managers, Union Organisers and Archivists & Piano Salesmen </span>will be discussed, along with lots of other interesting tidbits about the cemetery!</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></div><span style="font-family:'PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif';"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"> </span><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; font-family: georgia;" align="center"> </div><span style="font-family:georgia;"> </span><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; font-family: georgia;" align="center"><b>Sunday, June 19th</b></div><span style="font-family:georgia;"> </span><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; font-family: georgia;" align="center">10am to Noon<br />$10.00 per person (cash only please)<br />Rain or shine<br />No reservations necessary</div><span style="font-family:georgia;"> </span><div style="text-align:center;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;" align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Meet at 5445 Fraser St at 39th Ave.</span><br /><br /> <a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/NONMARKETOPERATIONS/MOUNTAINVIEW/walk%20poster3.pdf" target="1"><span style="color:blue;"><u>http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/NONMARKETOPERATIONS/MOUNTAINVIEW/walk%20poster3.pdf</u></span></a><br /><br /><br />And next,<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Crinolines, Crimes and Courage:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Women of Mountain View Cemetery Historical Walking Tour</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sunday, June 26, 2011</span><br /><br />1:00pm-3:00pm<br /><br />A fundraiser for the Friends of the Vancouver City Archives<br /><br />Minimum donation $10 (cash only). Maximum 25 people * drop-in only<br /><br />Meet at the southwest corner of 33rd & Fraser St.<br /><br /><br /><br />What do a Titanic survivor, a murdered nurse and an adventurous Gastown school teacher all have in common? You will discover the answer and more on this 2 hour tour led by three Vancouver women historians. Visit the grave sites and hear stories about the famous and forgotten remarkable women who helped shape our city. Step back in time to unearth fascinating true tales of struggles, conquests and mystery surrounding the lives of this amazing collection of historically important women. The tour also includes how to decipher grave marker symbolisms.<br /><br /><br />Tour by 3 women historians from the BC Genealogical Society, Women's History Network of BC & the Herstory Cafe.<br /><br />Lorraine Irving has been giving tours of Mountain View Cemetery for over 10 years. She is the President, B.C. Genealogical Society, B.C. Historical Federation Director, Vancouver Historical Society member, New Westminster Historical Society member and a guide at Irving House, New Westminster Museum.<br /><br />M. Diane Rogers is the Editor & Past President, British Columbia Genealogical Society and Secretary, Women's History Network of British Columbia. Teacher, speaker, researcher & writer, British Columbian family history and women's history.<br /><br />Jolene Cumming is a local historical interpreter whose specializes in early Vancouver women’s history and Stanley Park historical walking tours. She is the co-founder and co-coordinator of the Herstory Cafe and a board member of the Friends of the Vancouver Archives. Jolene is a fourth generation Vancouverite.<br /><br /><br /></div></span></span>M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-86529418152176211812010-10-13T10:32:00.000-07:002010-10-13T10:53:46.828-07:00Cemetery Events Coming Up - Vancouver & BurnabySpecial cemetery events for Women's History Month, All Souls, and Remembrance Day.<br /><br />24 October, Sunday, 1-2:30 pm: <em>Women's History Tour</em> with 'yours truly', M. Diane Rogers, Ocean View Burial Park in Burnaby. Sponsored by the Burnaby Village Museum. $15. Registration required; please <a href="http://www.burnabyvillagemuseum.ca/">register</a> early - in person, by phone or on-line.<br /><br />30 October - 2nd November, <em>6th Annual Night for All Souls</em> at Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver. See the <a href="http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/NONMARKETOPERATIONS/MOUNTAINVIEW/allsouls/index.htm">Mountain View website </a>for activities that day. Free events. Sunday, October 31st, hear the Threshold Choir from 7-8pm; Monday, November 1st see a special showing of "A Family Undertaking - Home Funerals in America" beginning at 7 pm.<br /><br />7 November, Sunday, 10-1130 am: <em>War Time Graves tour</em> with Maurice Guibord at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Burnaby. Sponsored by the Burnaby Village Museum. $15. Registration required: please <a href="http://www.burnabyvillagemuseum.ca/">register</a> early - in person, by phone or on-line.M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-73768444961021384302010-09-25T21:09:00.000-07:002010-09-25T21:42:57.051-07:00Graveyard Rabbit Carnival - Occupations and Hobbies<span style="font-style: italic;">An Occupation Or Hobby Memorialized in Stone</span> - this is the theme of October's Graveyard Rabbit Carnival.<br /><br />Here's a favourite of mine from Fraser Cemetery in New Westminster, BC, Canada - a loving remembrance.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TJ7LG7ZGmSI/AAAAAAAABWE/G83kSzdC3Y8/s1600/P6200495.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TJ7LG7ZGmSI/AAAAAAAABWE/G83kSzdC3Y8/s400/P6200495.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521073513085442338" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Kathleen Booth marker, Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC, Canada.<br />Photograph taken by M. Diane Rogers, June 2010.</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">[Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC, Canada. Marker for Booth, Kathleen, Section: IOOF 6-7, Row: 5, Stone: 5.]<br /><br /></span> </div><br />Take a look at what's on the one side of the marker though. Whether Kathleen Booth sewed for love or from necessity, we know she was likely never idle.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TJ7LHWBGjjI/AAAAAAAABWM/v-nyNV0LXec/s1600/P6200496.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TJ7LHWBGjjI/AAAAAAAABWM/v-nyNV0LXec/s400/P6200496.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521073520232533554" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Kathleen Booth marker, Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC, Canada.<br />Photograph taken by M. Diane Rogers, June 2010. [Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC, Canada. Marker for Booth, Kathleen, Section: IOOF 6-7, Row: 5, Stone: 5.]<br /></span><br /><br /></div>The British Columbia Genealogical Society (BCGS) published a CD about Fraser Cemetery in 2010 with photographs, gravestone inscriptions and descriptions. Contact the BCGS for more information: www.bcgs.caM. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-82232813992817269052010-06-24T12:31:00.000-07:002010-06-25T23:48:50.640-07:00Graveyard Rabbits - Scavenger Hunt - Fraser Cemetery - New Westminster BC Canada<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCO9E9iTsbI/AAAAAAAABR0/cG73AZrcr8c/s1600/View_Fraser.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486436664002982322" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCO9E9iTsbI/AAAAAAAABR0/cG73AZrcr8c/s400/View_Fraser.JPG" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">View of Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC, Canada. Fraser River beyond.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> Photograph, M. Diane Rogers, June 2009. </span><br /></div><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></p>The topic for the July 2010 edition of the Graveyard Rabbits Carnival is:<br /><em>Scavenger Hunt!<br /></em><br />For this Carnival, I chose to visit one of the graveyards nearest my home, Fraser Cemetery in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. This cemetery, operated by the city since the 1930s, was in use from about 1869 and, if you're someone who lives in the Lower Mainland here, you will recognize many of the historic family names represented in its burials. Originally there were separate areas, for instance, the Masonic, Oddfellows, Church of England and Veterans' sections. (The separate St. Peter's Roman Catholic Cemetery is right next door.)<br /><br />I took off for a few hours there and just had a wander by myself - choosing some examples that appealed to me that day, taking photographs and making notes as I went. Although it wasn't the nicest day weatherwise, this cemetery has an amazing view, and it's nice just to enjoy that and the 'atmosphere'. An angry crow did try to keep me away from its territory, 'dive bombing' me until I moved on, but, as you will see, another cemetery habitué was much more friendly. This is a cemetery where people visit graves regularly, and locals walk their dogs, and even their kids, and where the cemetery is small enough that one can see a lot in any visit.<br /><br />The following photographs illustrate my finds from the Scavenging List we were given: Cross, Heart, Fraternal symbol, Monument, Flower. Hand, Angel, Bird, Tree, Star, Obelisk, Four-legged animal, Photo, Military gravestone, Mausoleum. As you will see, I have taken some liberties with my identifications.<br /><br /><p></p><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCO3bIakGRI/AAAAAAAABQ8/C6zE--Ni9cU/s1600/Crowcher_graves_+Fraser.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486430447810648338" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCO3bIakGRI/AAAAAAAABQ8/C6zE--Ni9cU/s400/Crowcher_graves_+Fraser.jpg" /></a>Crosses - CROWCHER graves, (Reverend Charles, 1917, and Gertrude A., 1933), Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC, Canada. Photograph by M. Diane Rogers, June 2010. </div><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCWah-ORwrI/AAAAAAAABUM/aG7bZadcQgo/s1600/Richard_Wood_Fraser.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486961629450060466" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCWah-ORwrI/AAAAAAAABUM/aG7bZadcQgo/s400/Richard_Wood_Fraser.JPG" /></a> Heart - probably for Clara FINDLAY (1919), but this heart marker is very worn. There is at least one similar heart marker from the 1920s, as well as several quite recent ones. The other marker shown here for Richard WOOD (1992). Others buried here are Scott MEREDITH (2000) and Dorothy WOOD (2006). Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC, Canada. Photograph by M. Diane Rogers, June 2010.<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCWTf2QzrNI/AAAAAAAABTc/jK5Ii_xFB1E/s1600/Sanders_Fraser.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 323px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486953896372055250" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCWTf2QzrNI/AAAAAAAABTc/jK5Ii_xFB1E/s400/Sanders_Fraser.JPG" /> </a>Fraternal - <em>Knights of Pythias -</em> <em>symbol 'FCB' for Friendship, Charity and Benevolence </em>- SANDERS marker (1961), Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, Canada. Photograph, M. Diane Rogers, June 2010.<br /><br /><div align="center"> </div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCO6JbSEHjI/AAAAAAAABRU/pPo_uhS036Y/s1600/Wood_Face1_close_Fraser.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486433442172509746" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCO6JbSEHjI/AAAAAAAABRU/pPo_uhS036Y/s400/Wood_Face1_close_Fraser.JPG" /> </a><br />Monument - This is a very large stone - as tall as I am. Beth Wood was the first woman elected to New Westminster City Council (1949) and the city's first woman Mayor. Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC, Canada. Photograph by M. Diane Rogers, June 2010.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCO6KRIwfXI/AAAAAAAABRc/jfIF6rx5XIk/s1600/Norman_Fraser.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486433456628989298" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCO6KRIwfXI/AAAAAAAABRc/jfIF6rx5XIk/s400/Norman_Fraser.JPG" /></a><br />Flower - Malvina NORMAN's grave (1931), Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC, Canada. Photograph by M. Diane Rogers, June 2010.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCWdEszRgLI/AAAAAAAABUU/aSM3IGEa0YE/s1600/ELSABE+RISKE_FRASER.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486964425092071602" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCWdEszRgLI/AAAAAAAABUU/aSM3IGEa0YE/s400/ELSABE+RISKE_FRASER.JPG" /></a> Hands - Elsabe RISKE marker (1902, with husband L.W. on other side). Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC, Canada. Photograph by M. Diane Rogers, June 2010.<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCWdFsxIBGI/AAAAAAAABUk/ecdeKpC5Rc4/s1600/Kirkland-lyster-closeup-Fraser.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486964442262930530" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCWdFsxIBGI/AAAAAAAABUk/ecdeKpC5Rc4/s400/Kirkland-lyster-closeup-Fraser.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCWdFNmM21I/AAAAAAAABUc/28aQwKomKUM/s1600/kirkland-lyster-fraser.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486964433895611218" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCWdFNmM21I/AAAAAAAABUc/28aQwKomKUM/s400/kirkland-lyster-fraser.JPG" /></a><br />Angel - a beautiful marble monument for Ella Jane KIRKLAND LYSTER (1875). Married in 1874, she had lived with her husband in Oregon, but suffered from consumption and returned to New Westminster to die. Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC, Canada. Photograph by M. Diane Rogers, June 2010.<br /><br /><br /><p></p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCO9Dwg2C9I/AAAAAAAABRk/tiSel2r8U4A/s1600/Crow_Fraser.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486436643327314898" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCO9Dwg2C9I/AAAAAAAABRk/tiSel2r8U4A/s400/Crow_Fraser.JPG" /></a><br />Bird - A guardian crow, Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC, Canada. Photograph by M. Diane Rogers, June 2010.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCWThgZ3qEI/AAAAAAAABT0/-BGrAls5G_I/s1600/ARMSTRONG_LETTERS_FRASER.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486953924864223298" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCWThgZ3qEI/AAAAAAAABT0/-BGrAls5G_I/s400/ARMSTRONG_LETTERS_FRASER.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCWThOx3ijI/AAAAAAAABTs/mUTkEzHcSKU/s1600/ARMSTRONG_FRASER.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486953920133040690" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCWThOx3ijI/AAAAAAAABTs/mUTkEzHcSKU/s400/ARMSTRONG_FRASER.JPG" /></a> Tree - I love this twig lettering on the zinc ARMSTRONG monument (1882, 1884), Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC, Canada. Photographs, M. Diane Rogers, June 2010.<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCWTgoaq92I/AAAAAAAABTk/Trma6qZ7ESg/s1600/Burr+1+Fraser.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486953909835200354" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCWTgoaq92I/AAAAAAAABTk/Trma6qZ7ESg/s400/Burr+1+Fraser.JPG" /></a> Star - BURR family marker, including Raymond William Stacey Burr (1999), star of <em>Perry Mason </em>and <em>Ironside.</em> Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC, Canada. Photograph by M. Diane Rogers, June 2010. </div><br /><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCWYTRuW9NI/AAAAAAAABUE/P2z0zW0niD4/s1600/Brown_closeup_Fraser.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486959177963599058" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCWYTRuW9NI/AAAAAAAABUE/P2z0zW0niD4/s400/Brown_closeup_Fraser.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCWYSpcFxDI/AAAAAAAABT8/Shsd_UPATMs/s1600/Brown-front-Fraser.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486959167149556786" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCWYSpcFxDI/AAAAAAAABT8/Shsd_UPATMs/s400/Brown-front-Fraser.JPG" /></a> Obelisk - Memorial to Ebenezer BROWN (died 1883, New Westminster), by his daughter. Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC, Canada. Photograph by M. Diane Rogers, June 2010.<br /><br /><p></p><br /><br /><p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCO9EdZJDuI/AAAAAAAABRs/X1vIsULOQW4/s1600/black_cat_Fraser.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486436655374601954" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCO9EdZJDuI/AAAAAAAABRs/X1vIsULOQW4/s400/black_cat_Fraser.JPG" /></a><br />Four legged animal - a black cat - very friendly - and obviously very comfortable visiting in the neighbourhood. Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC, Canada. Photograph by M. Diane Rogers, June 2010.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCO9G_wGMFI/AAAAAAAABSE/kCCEBJXilY0/s1600/DeLosReyes_Fraser.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486436698957426770" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCO9G_wGMFI/AAAAAAAABSE/kCCEBJXilY0/s400/DeLosReyes_Fraser.JPG" /></a><br />Photo 1 - DE LOS REYES grave, (2007). A free standing easel has a photograph on the front, with a photo and commemorative text on the back. Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC, Canada. Photograph by M. Diane Rogers, June 2010. </p><p><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCO9F2qT6jI/AAAAAAAABR8/_MQhZ-4v6ww/s1600/Steigervald_Fraser.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486436679337372210" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCO9F2qT6jI/AAAAAAAABR8/_MQhZ-4v6ww/s400/Steigervald_Fraser.JPG" /></a><br />Photo 2 - John T. STEIGERVALD grave (1997), Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC, Canada. Photograph by M. Diane Rogers, June 2010. </p><p><br /></p><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCO_4BZPAcI/AAAAAAAABSM/v9kL7hWJFsA/s1600/HOSKIN_MILITARY_FRASER.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486439740235252162" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCO_4BZPAcI/AAAAAAAABSM/v9kL7hWJFsA/s400/HOSKIN_MILITARY_FRASER.JPG" /></a><br />Military - HOSKIN marker, Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC, Canada. Photograph by M. Diane Rogers, June 2010. There are a number of other HOSKIN military markers. Some may be related.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCPCafvM3PI/AAAAAAAABSk/Ujo6x-pULxE/s1600/cremation_plaques_fraser.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486442531519257842" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCPCafvM3PI/AAAAAAAABSk/Ujo6x-pULxE/s400/cremation_plaques_fraser.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCPCZ_L4zLI/AAAAAAAABSc/2ImgUdAKO8U/s1600/cremation_area_fraser.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486442522781207730" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCPCZ_L4zLI/AAAAAAAABSc/2ImgUdAKO8U/s400/cremation_area_fraser.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCPCZfYD5uI/AAAAAAAABSU/hKW8ykIwuHU/s1600/cremation_area_closeup.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486442514242332386" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/TCPCZfYD5uI/AAAAAAAABSU/hKW8ykIwuHU/s400/cremation_area_closeup.JPG" /></a><br />Lastly - Fraser Cemetery has no mausoleums, but does have this very modern new ossuarium (an in ground common 'vault' or receptacle for cremains), along with a new columbarium and wall space for memorial plaques. New Westminster, BC, Canada. Photograph by M. Diane Rogers, June 2010.<br /><br /><br />This post was written for the Graveyard Rabbits' Scavenger Hunt Blog Carnival.<br />Thanks to Julie Cahill Tarr, of <a href="http://clgrabbit.blogspot.com/">Chicagoland Cemeteries</a>, who came up with the idea for this Carnival for the <a href="http://www.thegraveyardrabbit.com/">Association of Graveyard Rabbits.</a><br /><br /></div></div><br /></div>M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-33711074330149425142010-03-23T07:07:00.000-07:002010-03-23T08:51:36.294-07:00The Final Disposition - Mountain View Cemetery Event - April 24, 2010 Vancouver BC<div align="center"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/S6jLWmHHGKI/AAAAAAAABNk/K5ZXe4gOpwQ/s1600-h/MV_VAN_Lay.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451830937979918498" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/S6jLWmHHGKI/AAAAAAAABNk/K5ZXe4gOpwQ/s400/MV_VAN_Lay.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Gravestone of Nellie LAY, died 5 February, 1920. Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, BC, Canada (JONES section /*/24/014/0005). Photograph by M. Diane Rogers, Fall 2009.</span> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><strong>THE FINAL DISPOSITION - All Day Event</strong></div><div align="center"><strong>Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, BC.</strong></div><div align="center"><strong>April 24, 2010</strong></div><div align="center"><strong></strong></div><div align="center"><strong>De-Mystifying Death, Funerals, Cemeteries & Ceremonies<br /></strong></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><em>A forum designed to address practical and philosophical matters on dying and death. Discussion begins with hospice care and continues with the role of funeral homes and cemeteries. Alternative options such as green burial and the importance of ritual and ceremony will end the day. </em></div><div align="center"><em></em></div><br /><br /><div align="center">Details at the <a href="http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/NONMARKETOPERATIONS/MOUNTAINVIEW/final.html">Mountain View Cemetery</a> website.<br />Free, but you must pre-register.<br /></div><br /><br /><div align="left">This full day event begins with a screening of “A Family Undertaking: Home Funerals in America”, and a session with Romayne Gallagher, Providence Health Care’s Division Head of Palliative Care and the Physician Program Director for Providence's Palliative Care Program. </div><div align="left"> </div><br /><div align="left">Then in the afternoon there is a session with Barry Jeske, an independent funeral director and co-owner of Wiebe & Jeske Burial & Cremation Care Providers in Abbotsford, on the 'Funeral Home, the Funeral Director. What do they do?...Can someone “do it themselves” in British Columbia?'. </div><div align="left"> </div><br /><div align="left">Then a session with Glen Hodges, Manager of Vancouver's Mountain View Cemetery, on the many roles of a cemetery. </div><br /><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">Later, a session with Stephen Olson, Executive Director of Royal Oak Burial Park in Victoria on 'Green Burials and the story behind Canada’s first urban natural burial site in Victoria’s Royal Oak Burial Park.' </div><div align="left"> </div><br /><div align="left">Finally Paula Jardine, Mountain View's own Artist in Residence, and Marina Szijarto, a contemporary rites of passage celebrant, artist & designer, discuss various cultural practices honouring the dead and the modern need to understand - and reclaim - the role of the artist in the sacred life of the community.</div><br /><br /><p align="left">Free, but space is limited; pre-register.<br />Details & Registration Information at Mountain View's website.<br />Saturday, April 24, 2010, 10:30 am - 4:30 pm<br /><a href="http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/NONMARKETOPERATIONS/MOUNTAINVIEW/final.html">Mountain View Cemetery</a>, in the Celebration Hall & Courtyard, 5445 Fraser St, Vancouver, BC. (The Cemetery entrance is at 39th and Fraser.) Easily accessible by public transit. </p><p align="left">This event includes tea and cookies, but please bring your own lunch and snacks.<br /></p><p align="left">Interesting note: Mountain View Cemetery is currently the only Canadian cemetery recognized by the <a href="http://www.greenburialcouncil.org/">Green Burial Council</a> which has set the first standards for green burial services and providers and has four levels of certification. </p><p>Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver BC is recognized in the 4th level as a 'Hybrid Burial Ground'. <em>"Hybrid Burial Grounds are conventional cemeteries offering the option for burial without the need for a vault (partial, inverted or otherwise), a vault lid, concrete box, slab or partitioned liner. Hybrid Burial Grounds shall not require the embalming of decedents and must allow for any kind of eco-friendly burial containers including shrouds."</em><br /><em></em><br />For more about green burial in British Columbia, see my previous post on a Mountain View event last fall: <a href="http://graveyardrabbitbc.blogspot.com/2009/11/artists-and-green-funeral-movement-dec.html">Artists and the Green Funeral Movement - Dec 9 2009</a> .<br /><br /></p><div align="center"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/S6jLWbb081I/AAAAAAAABNc/oEqiaTe5M4M/s1600-h/MV_Van_Jurkovic.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451830935114019666" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/S6jLWbb081I/AAAAAAAABNc/oEqiaTe5M4M/s400/MV_Van_Jurkovic.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Gravestone of Mike JURKOVIC, aged 20 (indexed at Mountain View as JURKOVITCH; death certificate indexed as JURHOVITCH), born in Jugoslavija, died 6 February 1935, at Tranquille, BC. Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, BC, Canada (Section JONES/*/13/002/0011). Also in plot - Phyllis Irene YURKOVICH, buried in 1994 and Robert YURKOVICH, buried in 1992. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">Photograph by M. Diane Rogers, Fall 2009. (If anyone is willing and able to translate the inscriptions on this stone for me, please contact me at <a href="mailto:canadagenealogy@shaw.ca">canadagenealogy@shaw.ca</a> .)<br /></span></div>M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-72790460780257563682010-03-07T22:19:00.001-08:002010-03-07T23:04:47.807-08:00Doin' Things Right - Carnival of Genealogical Societies - First Edition<div align="center"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/S5SXoLNt5jI/AAAAAAAABNM/o__3-BbBpDo/s1600-h/Fraser+Cemetery+office+2008.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446144565858657842" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/S5SXoLNt5jI/AAAAAAAABNM/o__3-BbBpDo/s400/Fraser+Cemetery+office+2008.JPG" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Entrance and office, Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC. Photograph, M. Diane Rogers, 2008.<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div align="left">Kathryn Doyle who writes over at the <a href="http://blog.californiaancestors.org/">California Genealogical Society</a> blog has created the Carnival of Genealogical Societies. The first edition is: Doin' Things Right! We were to “shine a spotlight on a specific program, project, or publication at a genealogical society and tell us why it worked.” </div><div align="left"><br />One place I feel most genealogical societies 'do right' is in organizing and enhancing the activities and energy of its members and volunteers to benefit the wider genealogical and historical communities. The work of the BC Genealogical Society (BCGS) cemetery committee is a good example of this. </div><div align="left"><br />The Society started in 1971 and, as with most groups, members came from a variety of backgrounds and had a number of different interests, but many of their long term goals were the same. One of the Society's initial objectives was to preserve British Columbia’s genealogical records, including cemetery records and gravestone inscriptions. This was particularly important here as some older BC cemeteries are subject to extreme weathering or are in remote areas and not easily accessible. Information from these cemeteries needed to be preserved and made easily available to researchers. Preserving cemetery information is still one of the BCGS's objectives today - and many cemeteries here are active ones; surname and inscription listings need to be updated regularly.</div><div align="left"><br /><br />Several members had done some cemetery recording before the Society started. Others who lived close to a smaller cemetery or who often travelled around British Columbia for business or pleasure began to do the same, but they recorded inscriptions on each gravestone in the cemeteries they came across. And very soon, society members ensured that these recordings would be available to others by organizing volunteers to type up inscriptions in a format that would make them easy to publish in the Society’s journal or to index and publish for committee or library use.</div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Some cemeteries are too large for one or two volunteers though and again the committee found volunteers to work on the larger projects together. The recording of Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver, for example, took four years and the work of many volunteers to finish. Some who worked on the Mountain View project still remember their working field trips which were followed usually by lunch and good conversation at a Chinese restaurant. After this followed the typing of the inscriptions from the volunteers’ scribblers, the indexing and the typing up of cards for these - some 50,000 cards - then the proofreading, and the outline, layout and publishing of the index.<br /><br /></div><div align="left">In the 1980s, the Committee began publishing new cemetery inscriptions for sale which meant these were available at a reasonable price to libraries, other societies and to individuals. In turn, this meant BC cemetery information was much more widely available.<br /><br /></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">This was all before computers, but Cemetery Committee members have always been quick to adopt new methods and assistance has usually been at hand from other members interested in new technology and tools. A member’s son developed the Cemetery Data Handler (CDH) computer programme which was used by the BCGS until fairly recently when a newer programme was needed for publishing. Nowadays we use digital cameras instead of scribblers for recording, and publish more on CD than on paper, but we can still have fun while working on our cemetery recordings.</div><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/S5SXbKhHfgI/AAAAAAAABM8/4ZfPydML8lE/s1600-h/Fraser+Cemetery+New+West+2008.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446144342333292034" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/S5SXbKhHfgI/AAAAAAAABM8/4ZfPydML8lE/s400/Fraser+Cemetery+New+West+2008.JPG" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC, 2008. Photograph, M. Diane Rogers</span><br /><br /><div align="left"><br />In recent years, the Committee has updated most of its older cemetery recordings for active cemeteries. Again, this was often done by individual members for smaller cemeteries, or sometimes by volunteer groups in co-operation with the BCGS. But Committee members just finished two large projects, the re-recording and photographing of all the inscriptions of gravestones in St Peter’s and Fraser cemeteries in New Westminster, BC. Research was also done in other sources for this project, including in burial records and newspapers. </div><div align="left"><br /><br /></div><div align="left">A genealogical society like the BCGS can co-ordinate these larger projects more easily than an ad hoc group, and has experienced members and volunteers to draw on, who are willing to teach the 'newbies'. And, because the BCGS Cemetery Committee has considerable experience editing and publishing cemetery recordings, the project results will be made available to others quickly and at a reasonable cost. And, the BCGS has BC Research services and a Library of its own where the information is used in assisting others to find their BC roots.<br /><br /></div><div align="center"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/S5SXap3Vz8I/AAAAAAAABM0/H4-nhiNGipk/s1600-h/Columbaria+Fraser+Cemetery+2008.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446144333568135106" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/S5SXap3Vz8I/AAAAAAAABM0/H4-nhiNGipk/s400/Columbaria+Fraser+Cemetery+2008.JPG" /></a> Columbarium added 2008, Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC, 2008. Photograph, M. Diane Rogers.<br /></div><br /><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-size:85%;">References: </span></div><div align="left"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">British Columbia Genealogical Society Cemetery Committee webpage: </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.bcgs.ca/BCGS%20Cemetery%20Committee.htm"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.blogger.com/www.bcgs.ca/BCGS%20Cemetery%20Committee.htm</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></div><div align="left"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">British Columbia Genealogical Society: </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.bcgs.ca"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.blogger.com/www.bcgs.ca</span></a></div><div align="left"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>British Columbia Genealogical Society, 1971-1996: The First Quarter Century</em> edited by Barbara Rogers and compiled by Maureen Hyde (Richmond, BC: British Columbia Genealogical Society, 1998).</span></div><div align="left"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Cemetery Recording Booklet</em> edited by Valerie Hooper (Richmond, BC: British Columbia Genealogical Society, revised, 2006). </span></div></div>M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-9942562888203779652010-01-25T20:47:00.000-08:002010-01-25T22:30:34.820-08:00Graveyard Critters - The Graveyard Rabbit Carnival<strong style="font-weight: bold;">The topic for the February 2010</strong><span style="font-weight: bold;"> edition of the Graveyard Rabbits Carnival is -</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Graveyard Critters!</span><br /><br />This theme was suggested by Diane Wright, who authors three cemetery blogs: <a href="http://thekansasrabbit.blogspot.com/">The Kansas Rabbit</a>, <a href="http://graveyardstew.blogspot.com/">The Wright Graveyard Stew</a>, and <a href="http://travelswright.blogspot.com/">The Grave Yard Rabbit Travels Wright</a><br />We were invited to post our photographs of cemetery critters.<br /><br />Now I have a number of photographs showing 'critters' carved or otherwise illustrating cemetery stones - from doves to lambs and deer. I even have several showing horses. But all too few of my photographs show live critters of any kind in a cemetery.<br /><br />The most memorable critter I've <span style="font-style: italic;">seen</span> in a cemetery was a hedgehog in the Bassingbourn Cemetery in Cambridgeshire, England, and, no, this wasn't <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joenewble/821014124/">Spike the Road Safety Hedgehog</a>. This was a real live little hedgehog. Again, no photo - I was too busy staring and thinking "Hey, it's Mrs Tiggy-Winkle!"<br /><br />Back at home, I'm a city girl, and a Pacific Northwest city girl at that, so I think the live critters I've seen the most in cemeteries would be seagulls or those very cheeky crows. But they seldom sit still close enough for me to try taking their photographs. Many people here like to walk their dogs in local cemeteries. This is often a controversial topic, and some cemeteries have restrictions, but it's certainly not uncommon to see dogs (on leashes).<br /><br />Whenever I can I visit cemeteries in the rest of British Columbia, though, and we are always warned to watch for bears and sometimes snakes. On a summer trip to the Whonnock Cemetery in the Fraser Valley last year, we saw evidence of a bear - if you know what I mean - but, thank goodness, no bear.<br /><br />Last year, at the Anglican Church's Nicola Cemetery (established in 1905, St. Michael's Anglican Church) which has lots of high grass and holes in the ground, I was so busy watching out in case of snakes that I almost stepped into a whole mess of ants just outside a grave enclosure. This time I did take a picture, but if you can see an ant in there I'll be surprised. I can't, but I swear! there were hundreds - all were busy trotting back and forth in that one area.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/S15-q4KihYI/AAAAAAAABHc/6NasGEPaRec/s1600-h/P6140414-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 291px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/S15-q4KihYI/AAAAAAAABHc/6NasGEPaRec/s400/P6140414-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430917475751593346" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">CLAPPERTON Monument, Nicola Cemetery, (Anglican), British Columbia, Canada. John T.W. Clapperton, died 1913 and Rose Clapperton, died 1918. 2009 photograph, M. Diane Rogers.<br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/S155dI4npNI/AAAAAAAABHM/VTUjHjTYDeQ/s1600-h/Nicola.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/S155dI4npNI/AAAAAAAABHM/VTUjHjTYDeQ/s400/Nicola.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430911742163526866" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Nicola Cemetery. 2009 photograph, M. Diane Rogers</span><br /></div><br />Many cemeteries have attractive landscape features which may include 'critters' too. Here is a photograph of the beautiful heron fountain just inside the entrance to Ocean View Burial Park in Burnaby, BC, near where I live. (Herons are my favourite birds.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/S16DX4uJOfI/AAAAAAAABH0/STRWwwNcStc/s1600-h/P6110225.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/S16DX4uJOfI/AAAAAAAABH0/STRWwwNcStc/s400/P6110225.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430922647041554930" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/S16DXRVlmXI/AAAAAAAABHs/k_NzsNvwzrs/s1600-h/P6110226.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/S16DXRVlmXI/AAAAAAAABHs/k_NzsNvwzrs/s400/P6110226.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430922636469574002" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Ocean View Burial Park, Burnaby, BC. 2009 photograph of entrance and fountain, M. Diane Rogers.<br /><br /></span></div>And just below, is a photograph of the most recent deer I've seen in a local cemetery. This photograph was also taken by me at Ocean View Burial Park in Burnaby in 2009.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/S16DW08bC5I/AAAAAAAABHk/w3Jj4MZzboM/s1600-h/John+Deer.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/S16DW08bC5I/AAAAAAAABHk/w3Jj4MZzboM/s400/John+Deer.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430922628847831954" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">I just couldn't resist!</span><br /></div><br />The Graveyard Critters edition of the Graveyard Rabbits Carnival will be posted soon by the <a href="http://www.thegraveyardrabbit.com/">Association of Graveyard Rabbits</a> on the Association's blog. Be sure to read the full carnival.M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-8593126181069612122009-12-26T00:07:00.000-08:002009-12-26T00:08:50.615-08:00THE FINAL RESTING PLACE - GRAVEYARD RABBITS CARNIVALFor my post, <a href="http://canadagenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/12/final-resting-place-graveyard-rabbits.html">THE FINAL RESTING PLACE - GRAVEYARD RABBITS CARNIVAL</a> , please click to visit my other blog, CanadaGenealogy, or, Jane's Your Aunt.M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-976973800634568492009-12-14T22:23:00.000-08:002009-12-16T10:49:26.554-08:00Cemetery Pt., Shoal Lake, Manitoba - A Festival of Postcards<div align="center"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/SyctRH_pJzI/AAAAAAAABBA/N2ydGtWvDwY/s1600-h/Save03200004.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 243px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415346849163323186" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/SyctRH_pJzI/AAAAAAAABBA/N2ydGtWvDwY/s400/Save03200004.JPG" /></a><em> <span style="font-size:85%;">Cemetery Pt. Shoal Lake - postcard front</span></em> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="left"><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">The theme for the upcoming Edition of <strong><em>A Festival of Postcards</em></strong> is: </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><strong>WHITE</strong>.<br /><br /></em>Evelyn Yvonne Theriault, the Festival's Editor, who blogs at </span><a href="http://acanadianfamily.com/a-festival-of-postcards/"><span style="font-size:100%;">A Canadian Family</span></a><span style="font-size:100%;"> suggested that I submit a cemetery card here at the Graveyard Rabbit of British Columbia, Canada. She's accepting anything related to white on postcards, including cards like this that are <em>black and white</em>.<br /><br />The message on this postcard reads:<em> Dear Joe I am sending you a picture of Shoal Lake which you have probably seen before. It is very pretty there is it not. I spent a day there this summer and enjoyed myself very much. Am writing to you. M.?. D. [bit hard to read the middle initial - could be S or G]<br /><br /></em>The card is addressed on the back to: <em>Miss Josephine Lauder, c/o Mrs Laidlaw, 274 Furby St. Winnipeg.<br /><br />Private Post Card</em>; the postcard is a bit obscured but is marked<em> - Birtle, OC, 04.<br /></em><br />This card qualifies for the Festival as it's <em>black and white</em>, but also qualifies as its back is mostly white; it's an undivided back card. Postcard backs were originally officially for the address only - that's why the message is on the front - and possibly why the photograph is smaller than we often see, so as to leave room for a handwritten note. </span><br /><br /></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;">Canada allowed divided back cards from 1903 on. See <a href="http://www.postcardsofhamilton.com/postcard_history.htm">Postcards from Hamilton's Past</a> for examples from the history of various Canadian commercial cards. I did notice that another Festival of Postcards contributor, Alan Burnett, at </span><a href="http://newsfromnowhere1948.blogspot.com/2009/12/festival-of-postcards-white.html"><span style="font-size:100%;">News From Nowhere</span></a>,<span style="font-size:100%;"> chose a similar card.<br /><br /></span></div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/SydGGg5jV5I/AAAAAAAABBI/ahzqwTnCwlo/s1600-h/Save0320.JPG"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 248px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415374154660796306" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/SydGGg5jV5I/AAAAAAAABBI/ahzqwTnCwlo/s400/Save0320.JPG" /></em></span></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><br /></em><em>Cemetery Pt. Shoal Lake - postcard back</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">I had another card in mind originally, but I just found this one at the </span><a href="http://www.vancouverpostcardclub.ca/"><span style="font-size:100%;">Vancouver Postcard Club</span></a><span style="font-size:100%;"> meeting and I wanted to post it to see if anyone has any more information about this cemetery site in Manitoba. I believe it's from the Shoal Lake my mother, born in Manitoba, used to visit. That Shoal Lake is in Shoal Lake Rural Municipality (RM) in southwest Manitoba.<br /><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:100%;">There are 3 Shoal Lakes in Manitoba though, one on the eastern border, shared with Ontario, and one (now three smaller lakes) in the southern Interlake region between Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba. The </span><a href="http://cemetery.canadagenweb.org/MB/index.html"><span style="font-size:100%;">Canada GenWeb Cemetery Project</span></a><span style="font-size:100%;"> lists 2 cemeteries for the Shoal Lake First Nations in eastern Manitoba, and 11 cemeteries in the Shoal Lake Rural Municipality. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">None is identified as at 'Cemetery Point, Shoal Lake', nor does Cemetery Point seem to be an official place name anywhere in Manitoba. However, Shoal Lake Point Burial Site in Shoal Lake RM is listed. I wonder if this is the area shown in this photograph? </span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">If so, the cemetery has been transcribed by George E. Fedyck, but his website is no longer available. If anyone has any information about Cemetery Point at Shoal Lake or about Shoal Lake Point Burial Site, or has contact information for George E. Fedyck, I'd appreciate hearing from you. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">This card was sent to Josephine Lauder, who, I think, lived in Winnipeg with her cousins, the Laidlaws, at the time this card was mailed in 1904, and perhaps to at least 1906 when she and a sister, Jessie, are listed in the Canadian census<sup>1</sup> at this same address, living with their cousins, the Laidlaw family, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. There was a LAUDER family living in Marquette District, in Manitoba, which would be near the southwestern Shoal Lake, but I haven't confirmed where Josephine and Jessie had lived earlier. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">According to </span><a href="http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/"><span style="font-size:100%;">Geographical Names of Canada</span></a><span style="font-size:100%;">, from Natural Resources Canada, by the way, there are 15 official places in Canada using the name 'cemetery' - </span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">Cemetery Hill in Alberta (Location 23-2-W5)<br />Cemetery Creek in British Columbia ( Yale Division, Yale Land District) Cemetery Hill in BC (once called a mountain - New Westminster Land District)<br />Cemetery Creek in BC (Kootenay Land District)<br />Cemetery Lake in Manitoba (Location 55-26-W)<br />Cemetery Hill in Newfoundland/Labrador (Ferryland)<br />Cemetery Lake in Nova Scotia (Richmond)<br />Cemetery Point in Nova Scotia (Cape Pictou)<br />Cemetery Pool in Nova Scotia (Feature - Annapolis)<br />Cemetery Pool in Nova Scotia (Feature - Inverness)<br />Cemetery Creek in Ontario (Huron)<br />Cemetery Creek in Ontario (Rainy River)<br />Cemetery Lake in Ontario (Lake Sudbury)<br />Cemetery Lake in Ontario (Lake Kenora)<br />Cemetery Point in Ontario (Cape Cochrane)<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">NOTE</span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><sup>1</sup>Josephine LAUDER, aged 27, Jessie LAUDER, aged 25, both born Manitoba. Ancestry.com. 1906 Canada Census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Library and Archives Canada. Census of the Northwest Provinces, 1906. Ottawa, Canada: Library and Archives Canada. RG31, T-18353 to T-18363. LAIDLAW/LAUDER - Manitoba. Winnipeg, Sub-District Ward Three, Sub-District 3D, page 15, family #103, lines 5-10. </span></p>M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-19464606371267637512009-11-25T14:04:00.000-08:002009-11-25T15:05:28.650-08:00My Story's Buried at the Graveyard Rabbits Carnival.<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/Sw2rKV-tagI/AAAAAAAABAE/m0imQycdS8g/s1600/GYR+cemetery+story.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 368px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 148px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408166921729042946" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/Sw2rKV-tagI/AAAAAAAABAE/m0imQycdS8g/s400/GYR+cemetery+story.jpg" /></a><br /><br />The theme for this month's Graveyard Rabbit Carnival is <em>"In the News". Write a blog post about something you read or heard in the news (recent or past) that pertains to a cemetery. </em><br /><em></em><br />This month in the Vancouver area where I live there was a sad cemetery story - but not about a 'human' cemetery - it's about a pet cemetery in Surrey, B.C., the only one in the area here. Before the 1990s, some 600 pets were buried in this privately owned cemetery at an estimated cost of about $600 each for graves and headstones.<br /><br />The cemetery land was later sold and the cemetery has since been neglected. Soon the land may be available for housing development.<br /><br />There is still a restrictive covenant, but that expires in January of 2010. It's said that the developer offered to sell the land so that the cemetery could remain, but the price was too high.<br /><br />This story has attracted a lot of comment locally and now it appears that there are at least 2 human gravestones here too - there might even be human remains. One stone, for example, identifies Murial L. Clerke as a corporal in the W.A.A.F. (British Women’s Auxiliary Air Force) who died in 1981, on the 16 August, aged 57.<br /><br />Kevin Woronchak, owner of North Vancouver’s <a href="http://www.untilwemeetagain.ca/">Until We Meet Again Pet Cremation Inc.</a>, is campaigning to save the cemetery. One solution would be to persuade the City of Surrey to make the area a public park. Kevin Woronchak can be reached at 604 - 924-1160.<br /><br /><br /><em><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/11/18/bc-surrey-pet-cemetery-developer.html#socialcomments">"Push on to turn pet cemetery into park"</a></em> <em>CBC News</em>, Wednesday, November 18, 2009.<br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?current=4654#video" s_oidt="0" s_oid="http://www.bclocalnews.com/surrey_area/surreyleader/?current=4654#video">Surrey pet cemetery nears end</a> by Dan Ferguson, <em>Surrey North Delta Leader</em>, article with video, November 19, 2009.<br /><em><a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/life/long+Snowball+Surrey+cemetery+redeveloped/2238757/story.html">"So long, Snowball: Surrey pet cemetery to be redeveloped"</a></em> by Pete McMartin, <em>Vancouver Sun</em>, November 19, 2009.<br /><em><a href="http://www.theprovince.com/life/Veteran+memorial+stone+found+abandoned+Surrey+cemetery/2238657/story.html">"Veteran's memorial stone found in abandoned Surrey pet cemetery.<br />Save Our Pet Cemetery campaign launched"</a></em> by Stuart Hunter, <em>The Province</em>, November 18, 2009.M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-72910461037051049842009-11-19T06:33:00.001-08:002009-11-19T07:19:45.631-08:00Mountain View Cemetery Tour - November 22 - Vancouver BC<div align="center"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/SwVb8cmgm-I/AAAAAAAAA_w/Q3Uk5WVslwI/s1600/TWISS+-+Mountain+View.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405828021756140514" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/SwVb8cmgm-I/AAAAAAAAA_w/Q3Uk5WVslwI/s400/TWISS+-+Mountain+View.JPG" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Ellen Jewel TWISS, Section Officer, Royal Canadian Air Force, Women's Division. Born 1914, died in 1947 at age 32. Commonwealth War Graves Commission stone, Mountain View Cemetery, Masonic section, Plot 105, Lot 1, family plot. </span><span style="font-size:85%;"> Parents: William James Twiss and Sadie Jewel Twiss. Photographed October 2009, M. Diane Rogers. </span><br /><br /><br /></div><div align="left">Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, BC.</div><div align="left"></div><p><em>In Honour of Remembrance Day Tour</em> - with Lorraine Irving.<br /><br />In this cemetery, you will find three areas dedicated to veterans.<br /><br />On this tour, we will feature Commonwealth War Grave monuments starting at the Celebration Hall and ending at the Cross of Sacrifice. Along the way, you will hear stories of veterans, including a nursing sister.<br /><br />Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 10 a.m. - Meet at the Mountain View Cemetery Celebration Hall & Courtyard (enter cemetery from 39th Avenue at Fraser Street). $10 each person. (Cash only please.)<br /><br />No reservations needed.<br /><br />Hot chocolate will be served after the tour - between 11:30 am & Noon.<br /><br />Mountain View Cemetery, 5455 Fraser Street, Vancouver, BC V5W 2Z3<br />Phone: 604 - 325 - 2646<br /><br />More information, including details on tours in 2010, is at the Mountain View Cemetery <a href="http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/NONMARKETOPERATIONS/MOUNTAINVIEW/walks.html">website</a>.<br /><br />Related Links:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/022-909.007-e.html">Canadian Forces after 1918</a> (including Second World War), Canadian Genealogy Centre, Library and Archives Canada - research sources for Canadian military, including information on obtaining files for those serving in the forces during World War II and database for files of Canadian military killed in WW II, including Ellen Jewel TWISS.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cwgc.org/">Commonwealth War Graves Commission</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.mapleleaflegacy.ca/">The Maple Leaf Legacy Project</a> </p>M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-72758424444685821512009-11-18T17:26:00.000-08:002009-11-18T19:18:35.720-08:00Artists and the Green Funeral Movement - Dec 9 2009<strong>Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, BC - Special Event<br /><br /><em>Artists and the Green Funeral Movement</em><br /></strong>Wednesday, December 9, 2009 from 7 - 9 pm<br />Mountain View's Celebration Hall and Courtyard.<br /><br />Presented by Mountain View Cemetery and the Britannia Art Gallery.<br /><br />Two artists, Paula Jardine, Mountain View Cemetery's Artist in Residence, and Joseph Montague, ceramicist and printmaker, will join Glen Hodges, Mountain View Cemetery's Manager, in a panel discussion.<br /><br />This should be a very interesting evening.<br /><br />Mountain View Cemetery<br />5445 Fraser St., Vancouver.<br />Telephone 604 - 325 - 2646<br />Mountain View Cemetery <a href="http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/NONMARKETOPERATIONS/MOUNTAINVIEW/">website.</a><br /><br />In British Columbia since the 1950s, there has been a strong interest in alternative funeral and burial practices, for example, in cremation. It's estimated that 80% of British Columbia's dead are now cremated. While cremation is still often seen as a modern alternative, many now question its effect on our environment and are looking at 'green' burials. A recent article by Darcy Wintonyk for CTV British Columbia, <em>"The Green Hereafter: Eco-burials gain popularity"</em> summarizes some of the debate around this issue. (Published Monday, 7 September 2009 at ctvbc.ca. <a href="http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090906/bc_green_burials_090906/20090907/?hub=BritishColumbiaHome">article link</a> )<br /><br />The Memorial Society of British Columbia, incorporated in 1956, is BC's only volunteer based memorial society - members have often been in the forefront of change in the province. One of the goals of the <a href="http://www.memorialsocietybc.org/">Memorial Society of BC</a> now is <em>"to promote environmentally sound arrangements for disposal of remains"</em> and the Society was honoured with the Vancouver Island Human Rights Coalition 2008 Award for its work towards the development of the first green burial site in British Columbia - at Royal Oak Burial Park in Victoria on Vancouver Island. There is more information about green burials on the Society's <a href="http://www.memorialsocietybc.org/">website</a>.<br /><br />Royal Oak Burial Park, open since 1923, since 2008 has offered <a href="http://www.robp.ca/our-services/natural-green-burial/"><em>"natural or green burials"</em></a> in its 1/3 acre <em>Woodland</em> where there are only communal memorial stones. Ashes (cremains/cremated remains) may be scattered in the Woodlands area or Royal Oak offers <em>"'hybrid’ natural burials"</em> in regular burial lots where individualized markers may be placed. For more information about this, see the <a href="http://www.robp.ca/">Royal Oak Burial Park </a>website.<br /><br />Only one other cemetery in Canada currently offers green burials, and a number of cemeteries in British Columbia require concrete vaults so that even 'hybrid' natural burials wouldn't be possible. Mountain View in Vancouver, however, does allow burials without concrete liners or vaults and as well allows for <em>"multigenerational"</em> use of a family grave or plots.<br /><br />In addition, the new Celebration Hall and the newer outdoor features lend themselves to more personal commemorations at death as well as to the annual public memorial events created by Paula Jardine, Mountain View's Artist in Residence.<br /><br />The cemetery's new buildings' display spaces are available to feature artists' funerary works. Joseph Montague has been involved in creating a number of funerary pieces, one of which was chosen for the <a href="http://pingmag.jp/2007/02/21/ashes-to-art/">'Ashes to Art'</a> exhibition in 2008.<br /><br />See a catalogue of Joseph Montague's work on his <a href="http://josephmontague.com/">website</a> and see the <a href="http://www.islandsinstitute.com/gallery/Jardine/frontpage.htm">Public Dreamer</a> website for a look at some of Paula Jardine's work.M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-68192263352089017852009-10-25T18:57:00.000-07:002009-10-25T20:46:25.851-07:00My Epitaph - Graveyard Rabbits Carnival - November 2009<div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>In former times, it was the custom to write for fanciful conceits on the tombs of the dead. Acrostics, anagrams, rebuses and puzzles were frequently met with, and no doubt the mourning relative thought that they thus paid a high mark of respect to the memory of the deceased; but to what good end? Surely here in God's Acre, if anywhere on earth, true reverence and simplicity should be found. No skilful conceit of man can ever take the place of the Word of God, even though it be as pointed and direct as that quaint epitaph written in the form of an acknowledgement from the Great Mother </em></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>who will one day clasp us all to her bosom: </em></span></div><div align="center"><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>"Received of Philip Harding his borrowed earth, July 4, 1673.</em></span><br /></div><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em><p><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">from<em> </em>"</span><span style="font-size:85%;">En</span><span style="font-size:85%;">glish Epitaphs"</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, by W. Everard Edmonds.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><sup>1</sup></span><span style="font-size:85%;"> <em>Victoria Daily Colonist</em>, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Sunday, </span><span style="font-size:85%;">2 June 1907, page 24. (Read the full article at the <em><a href="http://www.britishcolonist.ca/">British Colonist</a></em> website.)</span><br /><br /><br />The challenge for the November 2009 Edition of the <a href="http://www.thegraveyardrabbit.com/">Graveyard Rabbits'</a> Carnival was to write my own epitaph.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.hardiehouse.org/epitaph">'Plan Your Epitaph Day'</a>, an international observance for November 2nd each year, coincides with All Saint’s Day, often known as the Day of the Dead, and was created by Lance Hardie, <em>"committed epitaph crusader and consultant".</em><br /><br />This challenge wasn't hard as when I first published this blog, I included as a side piece a depiction of the epitaph that I hope is appropriate for myself -<em> Most Days She Did Her Best.</em><br /><br /><br /></p><p><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/SuUGC9suhnI/AAAAAAAAA-Y/_uAJTRO0FAE/s1600-h/tombstone+diane+r.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 241px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396726376465073778" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/SuUGC9suhnI/AAAAAAAAA-Y/_uAJTRO0FAE/s400/tombstone+diane+r.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Now it's true that, on the back, I'd like to see my dates and place of birth written and, if I could, a family tree showing at least my parents, grands and greats too. </p><p>But I'm set now on being buried in <a href="http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/NONMARKETOPERATIONS/MOUNTAINVIEW/">Mountain View Cemetery</a> in Vancouver, BC, where my parents, my uncle, and my paternal grandparents and my paternal grandmother's parents are buried, as well as a good assortment of other family. I doubt there will be room for a big stone just for me! </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;">1. The Harding epitaph, I believe, was from Crudwell, Wiltshire, England. See <em>Antiente epitaphes (from A.D. 1250 to A.D. 1800) collected [and] sett forth in chronologicall order</em> by Thomas FitzArthur Ravenshaw (</span><span style="font-size:85%;">London: </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Joseph Masters & Co.. </span><span style="font-size:85%;">1878), </span><span style="font-size:85%;">page 127. </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Read this at the </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/antienteepitaphe00rave">Internet Archive</a>. </p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;">Reverend W. Everard Edmonds, born in Ontario, Canada, wrote several books and articles about Canadian history. After World War I, Edmonds, a high school teacher and an Anglican minister, was Editor of the <em>Alberta Historical Review</em>, the journal of the </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Historical Society of Alberta. "The Historical Society - e</span><span style="font-size:85%;">arly years 1907-1952" by Hugh A. Dempsey (<em>Alberta History</em>, Autumn 2007 - </span><a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3289/?tag=content;col1"><span style="font-size:85%;">read on-line</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">.)<br /><br /></p></span>M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-51306751287800596052009-10-20T23:50:00.000-07:002009-10-21T01:02:34.973-07:00Night for All Souls - Mountain View Cemetery - Vancouver BC Oct 30-Nov 2 2009A Night for All Souls was created by <a href="http://islandsinstitute.com/gallery/Jardine/frontpage.htm">Paula Jardine</a>, Mountain View's Artist in Residence, in 2005. Here is an <a href="http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=a729dfc2-f808-493c-84c3-fa44c371b8e1">article</a> from the <em>Vancouver Sun</em>, 27 October 2008, about last year's event.<br /><br />In 2009, there will be new participants and new activities at the <a href="http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/NONMARKETOPERATIONS/MOUNTAINVIEW/allsouls/2009.htm">Night for All Souls</a> event, from October 30 to November 2, 2009.<br /><br />It begins on Friday, October 30th with prayers at sundown. As in previous years, there will be materials on hand to create your own personal memorials or you can join one of the <a href="http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/NONMARKETOPERATIONS/MOUNTAINVIEW/allsouls/workshop.htm">workshops</a> this week. <a href="http://www.worldteaparty.com/original-website/toptop/home.html">World Tea Party</a> artist Bryan Mulvihill and Ian Willie/Raven Thunderbird will hold a tea ceremony to honour First Nations people buried at Mountain View and, for the first time, local poets, led by Vancouver's Poet Laureate, <a href="http://www.poetrymap.ca/profile.php?PoetID=33">Brad Cran</a>, will be present reading at various locations in the cemetery. The evening closes at 10 pm.<br /><br />On Saturday, October 31st, from 8 to 11 pm,Vancouver’s Helping Mex y Can Society will be co-hosting an evening of Mexican traditions to honour the dead with mariachi music, ancient dances of the Aztecs, and traditional Mexican refreshments. There's a Facebook page for this event <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=146233701870&index=1">here</a>.<br /><br />On Sunday, November 1st, in the afternoon, from 2 to 4 pm, Poet Laureate Brad Cran and poet Stephen Hollis will host a tribute to the late poets <a href="http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/thesearch/archive/2009/05/12/poet-robin-blaser-becomes-quot-a-part-of-the-earth-quot.aspx">Robin Blaser</a>, <a href="http://www.nightwoodeditions.com/author/KuldipGill/194">Kuldip Gill</a>, <a href="http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=9594">David Dawson</a> and <a href="http://www.cuebooks.ca/">Billy Little</a>.<br /><br />Monday, November 2nd, from 5-6 pm, there is a last opportunity for memorials.<br /><br />And on Tuesday, November 3rd, the closing ceremony will be held at noon.<br /><br />For more information, see Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver - on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vancouver-BC/Mountain-View-Cemetery-Where-Vancouver-Remembers/82302381332">Facebook</a> - on <a href="http://twitter.com/MountainViewCem">Twitter</a>M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-14134067990707551532009-10-11T11:22:00.000-07:002009-10-11T12:00:13.907-07:00Roadside and other Public but Personal Memorials - Future Genealogy SourceFurther to my last post, <a href="http://graveyardrabbitbc.blogspot.com/2009/10/looking-for-death-information-thinking.html">Looking for Death Information - Thinking about Genealogy Sources </a>, I'm currently reading <em>Private Grief, Public Mourning: The Rise of the Roadside Shrine in British Columbia</em> by John Belshaw and Diane Purvey. (Vancouver, BC: Anvil Press, 2009). I picked up a copy of this new book at <a href="http://www.thewordonthestreet.ca/wots/vancouver">Word on the Street</a> in Vancouver last month.<br /><br />Many of these memorials are, by their nature and construction, ephemeral, but these may also be sources of death information. These often very personal memorials which may be constructed and contributed to almost anonymously are not necessarily all roadside memorials, although those may seem to have the most attention. Memorials in parks or at residences are perhaps less likely to stay up for long.<br /><br />And, in some jurisdictions in Canada, governments, with the assistance of <a href="http://www.madd.ca/">MADD Canada</a>, are placing permanent memorial markers at traffic accident sites.<br /><br />Some, including the media in crime cases, are photographing these kinds of memorials, as these authors have done, so collections of today's personal memorial images and records may be available to future researchers.<br /><br />Here are just a few links to collections and articles on-line<br /><br /><a href="http://donb.photo.net/random_walks/memorials.html">Roadside Memorials</a>, Don Baccus.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.roadsidememorials.ca/">RoadsideMemorials.ca</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2009/zarrilli/1a.htm">"Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the U.S. South"</a> by<br />Tom Zarrilli. <em>Southern Spaces</em>, published 19 August, 2009.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.surf-mexico.com/shrines/">A Photo Journey of Mexican Roadside Memorials</a> from the <em>Surf-Mexico Guide to Surfing and Adventure Travel in Mexico</em> website.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.squidoo.com/roadsidememorials">Folklore of Roadside Memorials</a>, by <em>psolis</em>, Pablo Solis, at Squidoo.M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-48813932013235637902009-10-11T09:47:00.000-07:002009-10-11T10:51:03.632-07:00Looking for Death Information - Thinking about Genealogy Sources<div align="center"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/StISeYn6r0I/AAAAAAAAA8w/3FSNScmIRe0/s1600-h/david+saggers+grave-1.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 242px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391392017131155266" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/StISeYn6r0I/AAAAAAAAA8w/3FSNScmIRe0/s400/david+saggers+grave-1.JPG" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> David Rogers' grave, 1927, Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, BC, Canada.<br /></span></div><p>The other day, for fun(!) and for a genealogy class I'm teaching at the <a href="http://www.cccrburnaby.org/">Burnaby Community Centred College</a> for the Retired, I sat down with a cup of tea, paper and pen, and made a list of all the sources for death information I could think of at the time. Some will have dates of death, others will have cemetery information or the cause of death, but all are potential sources for genealogical death information. Now I've put an asterisk beside those I've used or found family information in during my own research.<br /><br />I know there must be more sources, perhaps some very obvious ones - please do comment!<br /><br />DEATH –POSSIBLE SOURCES OF INFORMATION<br /><br />*Insurance records<br />*Land records (deeds, assessments, petitions, etc.)<br />*Cemetery records (including burial records, photographs)<br />*Funeral home records or crematorium records<br />Coffin plates<br />Memorial jewellery or other momentos<br />Post-mortem photographs<br />*Newspaper obituary or article or notice<br />*Government or other records (other than strictly death related) e.g. disaster reports, commissions, year-end reports of epidemics or mortality, or attorney-general or police or court records (including coroner’s reports), etc. Lists, notices, correspondence regarding government aid to orphans, widows, or burial assistance. Also voters lists and the like.<br />*Tombstone inscription<br />*Funeral programme<br />*Government notices of deaths (e.g. in a newspaper for particular months)<br />*Death certificate/death registration of individual (or a family member)<br />*Family letters<br />*Marriage applications, registrations, invitations, etc. of related person<br />Pension applications<br />*City/community directories<br />*Proved will of individual; wills of family members or others<br />*Church records, burials, burial charges/services (e.g. <em>burial in wool</em> – England 1666-(1770) 1814), memorial gifts or bequests, sessional records, etc.<br />*Organization or association records or publications, e.g. Royal Canadian Legion – ‘Last Post’; lists or notices of graves visited on 'Decoration Days'. [Also burial assistance records or cemetery records, if the organization has a cemetery or owns cemetery plots for members' use.]<br />*Community history book<br />Ship’s passenger lists<br />*Family photograph of grave/funeral/monumental inscription<br />Monument makers record<br />*Genealogical publications or databases, e.g. D.A.R. applications, also family genealogies<br />*Guardianship applications<br />*Medical records –physicians or hospital, also autopsy reports<br />*Memorial or funeral cards<br />*Probate or estate files, wills, applications, inventories, etc. of individual or another person<br />*Census – mortality schedules<br />*Genealogical/historical society recordings of monumental inscriptions<br />School records and publications<br />*Military file of individual or related person<br />*Urn or container of cremains with official or other label<br />*Legal ads – newspapers, government gazettes. Also auction or other sale notices<br />Pension records for individual or related person (company, private, government)<br />*Family bible or other record, family journals, diaries [My grandmother's address book was very helpful - she even added dates.]<br />*‘In Memory’ website or Facebook page.<br />Employment records or publications<br />*In Memoriam notices – newspapers, other publications. Also Cards of Thanks. [Found a newspaper notice from my great uncle remembering his step-sister - 10 years after her death. That's how I found her date of death.]<br />*Oral or other family tradition, e.g. ‘died at sea’. [My grandmother remembered lilies of the valley on her brother's grave.]<br />*Funeral, monument or other cemetery related receipts<br />*Memorial monuments or rolls (other than cemetery related), e.g. cenotaphs, community memorial plaques<br />*Union records and publications<br />Certificate of burial/cremation or transfer/transport of body/ashes</p><p>(I'm not thinking about indexes here as those should lead us to the actual documents and artifacts. )</p><p>And I could have added: </p><p>*Obituary collections - printed, on-line, or in card files, etc. from individuals or genealogical/historical societies/museums, etc. [Hope I am not taking these for granted!]</p><p>*Birth records of related individuals may have information on deceased parents, etc.<br /><br /><br /><br /></p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/StIRhv8RalI/AAAAAAAAA8o/iaj-mQJLZfU/s1600-h/Save03160001.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 335px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391390975418526290" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/StIRhv8RalI/AAAAAAAAA8o/iaj-mQJLZfU/s400/Save03160001.JPG" /> <p align="center"></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Receipt for purchase of one share BC Electric Power and Gas Company Ltd., from estate of David J. Rogers, 1927. To be paid to G.W. Hamilton, Esq., Undertaker, Vancouver, BC, Canada</span></p>M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-46741532382370115162009-09-06T13:19:00.000-07:002009-09-06T13:50:38.639-07:00Sombre or Somber Sunday - 6 September 1919 - Vancouver BC CanadaThe <em>Vancouver Daily Sun</em>, 6 September 1919 had these notes on deaths:<br /><br />Deaths and Funerals, page 10<br /><br /><em>DARWELL—September 4, 1919, at the Vancouver General Hospital, Edythe Leslie Darwell, in her 23rd year, late of 1746 William Street. Funeral service from Center & Hanna’s chapel this afternoon at 1 o’clock. Interment in Mountain View Cemetery.<br /></em><br /><em>PHELPS—September 4, 1919, at the family residence, 2034 Thirty-sixth avenue west, Robert Louis Phelps, in his 43rd year. Funeral service from Center & Hanna’s chapel this afternoon at 2:30. Rev. Mr. Wilson officiating. Interment in Ocean View Burial Park.</em><br />[The BC Archives Vital Events Index shows his name as Lewis, not Louis, and the place of death as Point Grey which was not part of Vancouver at this time.]<br /><br />BAILEY—Inquest, page 7<br /><br /><em>An inquest will be held on the body of J. W. Bailey, a returned soldier, who fell dead in the Maryland cafe. The inquest will probably be held on Monday, according to Dr. T.W. Jeffs, coroner. No relatives of the deceased have been located yet.<br /></em>[Identified as John Wright BAILEY, aged 52, in the BC Vital Events Index. Death date: 5 September, 1919.]<br /><br />And from France, page 2<br /><br />From Paris – a brief report on a two train collision near Toulouse. 13 killed, 40 injured that morning.<br /><br />*********************<br />About Sombre Sunday<br /><br />I post deaths from British Columbia, Canada from<br />the date of the first Sunday of each month as published in a selected newspaper or other source.<br /><br />Somber Sunday, or, as we spell it here in Canada, Sombre Sunday, is a day to post obituaries or sad stories - the idea of Brenda Kay Wolfgram Moore who writes at <a href="http://hte46.blogspot.com/">Day-ly Genealogy Blogposts </a>.<br /><br />Useful links:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bcarchives.bc.ca/BC_Our_Collections/BC_Vital_Rrd_Collect.aspx">BC Archives Vital Events Index & Information</a><br /><br /><a href="http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/NONMARKETOPERATIONS/MOUNTAINVIEW/">Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver </a><br /><br />Ocean View Burial Park is in Burnaby, a neighbour city to Vancouver. The <a href="http://www.bcgs.ca/">BC Genealogical Society</a> has information on burials there and a CD for sale.M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-45908681642466030722009-08-25T08:06:00.001-07:002009-08-25T08:38:05.223-07:00Tombstone Tuesday, James Chapman, Whonnock BC Canada<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/SpP-LTeW49I/AAAAAAAAA48/cAyhkhGZjyk/s1600-h/Whonnock+Cemetery+P8230761.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373918250542752722" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/SpP-LTeW49I/AAAAAAAAA48/cAyhkhGZjyk/s400/Whonnock+Cemetery+P8230761.jpg" /></a><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">James Chapman, died in British Columbia, Canada. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">According to his WW I Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force attestation papers, he was born in Parry Sound, Ontario 18 January, 1872. He was living in Whonnock, BC in 1911 with his mother, Ann, his brothers, George and Abel, and his sister, Fannie. He died 27 February, 1940. (Library & Archives Canada CEF file: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 1627 - 6. Ancestry.com: 1911 Canadian Census database on-line, Whonnock, Dewdney Riding, Maple Ridge Municipality, New Westminster, British Columbia, Enumeration District #40, Page 4, Family No 30. Ancestry.com. 1911 Census of Canada. BC Archives Death Registration: 1940-09-568688. )</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">Fred Braches has researched and transcribed the Whonnock Cemetery, Whonnock, British Columbia and information on the burials there is on-line - </span><a href="http://www.whonnock.ca/whonnock/Whonnock-Notes.htm"><span style="font-size:85%;">Whonnock Notes</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> #2 Spring 1997 (see link there to a .pdf file).</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></div><div></div>M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-49650758185185038532009-08-22T05:54:00.000-07:002009-08-22T06:59:17.532-07:00Cemetery Tours - Vancouver and Burnaby - August-September 2009<div align="center"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/So_u_T0L_MI/AAAAAAAAA4c/OzejzXYrBXg/s1600-h/Woodward+Mausoleum+Masonic+Cemetery+Burnaby.jpg"><span style="font-size:85%;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 287px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372775651894623426" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/So_u_T0L_MI/AAAAAAAAA4c/OzejzXYrBXg/s400/Woodward+Mausoleum+Masonic+Cemetery+Burnaby.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> <em>Woodward Mausoleum, Masonic Cemetery, Burnaby, British Columbia. Photograph, M. Diane Rogers</em>.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/So_u-Z9wW9I/AAAAAAAAA4M/IKJh148bPpw/s1600-h/Detail+-+Woodward+Mausoleum+Masonic+Cemetery+Burnaby.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372775636365499346" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/So_u-Z9wW9I/AAAAAAAAA4M/IKJh148bPpw/s400/Detail+-+Woodward+Mausoleum+Masonic+Cemetery+Burnaby.jpg" /></a><br /><em>Front column detail, Woodward Mausoleum, Masonic Cemetery, Burnaby, British Columbia. Photograph, M. Diane Rogers.</em><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Cemetery tours are coming up soon in the Lower Mainland - at Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver this Sunday, August 23rd, and on September 13th at the Masonic and Beth Israel cemeteries in Burnaby.</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">The Vancouver tours will be led by Lorraine Irving of the <a href="http://www.bcgs.ca/">BC Genealogical Society </a>and John Atkin. John is a local historian and Lorraine has been researching in <a href="http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/NONMARKETOPERATIONS/MOUNTAINVIEW/">Mountain View Cemetery</a> for many years and is a very active member of the BCGS. Their tours are on Sunday, August 23rd at 10 am. Meet at 33rd and Fraser Streets on the south west corner - look for the red flag. $10. each. Pre-registration is not necessary. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left">These are the first in a new series of regular walking tours of Mountain View Cemetery.<br /><br />The Burnaby cemetery tours are led by Maurice Guibord of the <a href="http://www.burnabyvillagemuseum.ca/">Burnaby Village Museum</a>. Tours start at 10 am. $10.50 each. Please pre-register. You'll be given details then. Register on-line through the <a href="http://www.burnabyvillagemuseum.ca/">website</a> or by phone. Burnaby Village Museum: 604-293-6500.</div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left">Maurice is a local historian, the Programme Co-ordinator at the Burnaby Village Museum, and also a BC Genealogical Society member. The Masonic and Beth Israel cemeteries are side-by-side in the Brentwood area. At the Masonic Cemetery, for instance, you'll learn about the architecture and the history of the Woodward Mausoleum shown in these photographs, while at the Beth Israel Cemetery, Jewish burial traditions and graves will be shown and discussed.<br /><br /></div><div align="left">Watch for more information about future cemetery tours in the Lower Mainland.</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><br /></div></div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/So_u-4MHdQI/AAAAAAAAA4U/lcr6GgxfSts/s1600-h/Masonic+Cemetery+Burnaby+Mauirice+Guibord+mausoleum.jpg"><em><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372775644478797058" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Odvl8i39j3A/So_u-4MHdQI/AAAAAAAAA4U/lcr6GgxfSts/s400/Masonic+Cemetery+Burnaby+Mauirice+Guibord+mausoleum.jpg" /> <p align="center"></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Maurice Guibord discussing the Woodward Mausoleum in the Masonic Cemetery in Burnaby. Photograph, M. Diane Rogers<br /></span></em><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-78230870560841353152009-08-11T09:44:00.000-07:002009-08-11T10:17:33.695-07:00What would be an appropriate epitaph for Julia Child?I've just finished reading <em>Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously</em>, about the year the author, Julie Powell, cooked every recipe in Julia Child's cookbook, <em>Mastering the Art of French Cooking</em> and blogged about it all.<em> </em>I did find the book funny, although even Julia Child in person couldn't get me cooking some of these things (and perhaps Julia Child wasn't impressed with Julie's project anyway).<br /><br />After Child's death, Julie Powell at first envisioned Julia with her husband Paul again toasting <a href="http://blogs.salon.com/0001399/">"whatever comes next"</a> but at the end of <em>Julie and Julia,</em> she<br />says she thinks Julia's in a grave with a <em>"cool headstone"</em> and she gives her readers a guess what the epitaph is. Well, I immediately thought 'The End' since Julia Child was an author. No, that's not right.<br /><br />According to <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9311948">Find A Grave</a>, Julia Child's body wasn't buried. Her ashes were scattered instead, perhaps in <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2004-08-15-child-banquet-of-life_x.htm">Santa Barbara and Maine</a>, USA. I see there are over 700 messages there on the Find A Grave memorial pages for Julia Child. That's quite a memorial in itself.<br /><br />Now what would be a good epitaph though?<br />Maybe this - often attributed to Julia Child - <em>"Life itself is the proper binge."</em><br /><br /><em>Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously</em> by Julie Powell (New York: Back Bay Books, 2005).M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959890670337904641.post-63952920701365543752009-08-02T16:03:00.000-07:002009-08-02T16:56:25.470-07:00Somber Sunday - 2 August 1888 - British Columbia Canada<strong>Somber Sunday - 2 August 1888</strong><br /><br />For Sombre Sunday, I post deaths from British Columbia, Canada from the date of the first Sunday of each month as published in a selected newspaper or other source.<br /><br />Today these are from the <em>Victoria Daily Colonist</em>, published in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Thursday, 2 August, 1888. See below for the link to the British Colonist Online website to read the entire articles.<br /><br /><strong>Deaths Mentioned from British Columbia –<br /></strong><br />A report from the <em>Donald Truth</em> newspaper about the inquest into the death of William ARCHER, shot near Golden, B.C., and the arrest of Michael KENNEDY for the murder. Both were married men and ranch owners. Kennedy had apparently been a witness in a case against Archer which had involved a Mrs. WILLIAMS. Page 1<br /><br />~~~<br />Johnny KLA-QUOT-SI <em>“discharged from custody”</em> in the DRING and MILLER case. [James MILLER and W.H. DRING were murdered near Chemainus in February, 1886.] The judge ruled the witness was not credible and also ruled Kla-quot-si’s confession inadmissable. QUAMLET, "<em>the principal murderer,.</em>..[had] <em>died in prison</em>.” Page 1<br /><br />~~~<br />Mr. T. ARGYLE returned from searching the <a href="http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/history/history.htm">Race Rocks</a> area for the bodies of his son Tom and others recently drowned. Page 4<br /><br />[Thomas Argyle, H.E. Leavitt SMITH, Arthur WILLIAMS and Abraham VANDERSLUSE were reported drowned while rowing to the lighthouse at Race Rocks where Thomas’s father was lighthouse keeper. See <em>Victoria</em> <em>Daily Colonist</em>, 31 July, 1888, page 4, for the initial report.]<br /><br />~~~<br /><em>“The funeral of the unfortunate Cyprian took place yesterday afternoon and was attended by a long line of carriages containing the ‘demi monde’ element, and some of their male friends.”</em> Page 4<br /><br />[This, I believe, was the funeral of Mabel Vaughan, who died 30 July, 1888. The newspaper reported her death on 31 July 1888, p. 4, saying she “for some years has been an inmate of a house of ill-fame on Broad Street...]<br /><br />~~~<br />Impressive Funeral Ceremonies – a very full description of the funeral of the Very Rev. John J. JONCKAU, 1 August, 1888 at <a href="http://www.standrewscathedral.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45&Itemid=65">St. Andrew’s Cathedral</a>, including pall bearers’ names, etc. The funeral procession included the St. Joseph’s Society, Young Men’s Institute, Acolytes, Cross Bearer, The Clergy, Bishop-Elect LEMMENS, Rt. Reverend Bishop LOUTTENS, Pall Bearers, The Sisters of St Ann and The Orphans, then the General Public (shown in a diagram in this order). At the end of the service the casket was laid in the vault beneath the church – alongside the casket of the late Bishop Demers.<br /><br /><em>“Up to the time that the casket was closed, the features retained the calm, placid appearance of one in a gentle sleep, and showed not the slightest sign of decay....Mr. Chas. HAYWOOD had charge of the funeral arrangements throughout.”</em> Page 4<br /><br />~~~<br />Also rumour of a murder at Hequiot. Page 4<br /><br /><br /><strong>Deaths from Elsewhere –</strong><br /><br />Clarke River. Ontario – A report from Kingston that two men, Joseph and Louis ROSEL, had killed another man. <em>“Drink was the cause.”</em> Page 1<br /><br />China – A report from Montreal – Dr William YOUNG of Montreal died in China. Dr YOUNG had left Montreal to practice in Hong Kong in 1878. He later accepted a position as <em>“chair of chemistry”</em> in Montreal for <em>“one season”,</em> but returned to Hong Kong. Page 1<br /><br /><em>“Frank HALL, the celebrated painter, is dead.”</em> Page 1<br /><br />Dublin, Ireland – <em>"Aug 1 - Patrick BERRY, only recently returned from America, and now residing near Listowel, has been arrested on suspicion of murdering Farmer FORARN on Saturday."</em> Page 1<br /><br />Kentucky, USA – Dr. Robert MORRIS, the <em>“poet-laureate of Masonry and the most distinguished Mason in the world”,</em> died <em>“on Tuesday morning.....</em><em>Dr. MORRIS will be well remembered for his visit to Victoria about a year ago...”</em> Page 2<br /><br />Brooklyn, New York, USA – Dr Winslow I PRICE, <em>“died on Sunday, aged 60 years.” </em>Page 4<br /><br />Bloomington, New York, USA - Bartley CAMPBELL,<em> “the well known playwright, died at the Bloomington N.Y., assylum</em> [sic] <em>for the Insane.....”</em> Page 4<br /><br /><strong>Estate Notices</strong><br /><br />Re estate of W.E. BLACKETT, Nanaimo, Contractor – J.C. BLACKETT, Administrator. Page 3<br /><br />Re estate of William Francis MORRISON, New Westminster, Hotel Keeper – W.H. FALDING, Administrator. Page 3<br /><br /><strong>Related Advertiesements</strong><br /><br />Chas. HAYWARD – Funeral Director and Embalmer – Langley Street Victoria. Page 3<br /><br /><em>Ladies who wear Black by choice will always find the most varied selection at the City House.</em> Page 4<br /><br /><br />This issue of the newspaper can be read at The British Colonist Online 1858-1910: <a href="http://www.britishcolonist.ca/">http://www.britishcolonist.ca/</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Somber Sunday</span></strong><span style="font-size:85%;">, or, as we spell it here in Canada, <strong>Sombre Sunday</strong>, is a day to post obituaries or sad stories - the idea of Brenda Kay Wolfgram Moore who writes at </span><a href="http://hte46.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">Day-ly Genealogy Blogposts</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> .<br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span>M. Diane Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10081926719011983394noreply@blogger.com0