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Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster – Raymond Burr, Cyrus Wesley Peck; Kelowna Municipal Cemetery, Kelowna – Bill Bennett, W. A. C. Bennett, Ray Powell; Mountain View Cemetery. The oldest cemetery in the city of Vancouver, it is the resting place of 145,000 people, including numerous notable figures in the city's history.
This is a list of cemeteries in the York Region of Ontario, Canada.. Active cemeteries includes religion affiliated or non-denominational. Abandoned cemeteries are managed by the municipalities they are located in. In some cases where graves are no longer found or missing markers
English: Cemetery notes and/or description: S Mid Lot 21, Concession 10, Esquesing Township History: Burials have taken place in this cemetery since 1833, but it was not officially conveyed to the village until shortly after the death of Benjah Williams in 1851, when his son Charles donated the land as a public burying ground.
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Mount Olivet Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada at which 19 bodies recovered from the RMS Titanic are buried. Many of the dead from the 1917 Halifax Explosion are also buried here, including Vincent Coleman , the heroic railway dispatcher who sent warning of the explosion.
This monument was the last grave marker in the cemetery. In 1938, the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts presented and dedicated a granite monument to Erasmus James Philipps, who is the earliest known settler of Nova Scotia (c. 1721) to be buried in the cemetery. He was also the founder of Freemasonry in present-day Canada (1737). [8]
Union Cemetery is a 19 hectares (47 acres) urban cemetery in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, containing about 21,000 graves. [1] It is located in the city's southeast in the predominantly industrial district of Manchester, and is the burial place for many of the city's earliest pioneers and settlers, as well as over 150 Commonwealth burials from the First and Second World Wars. [2]
The Strangers' Burying Ground, also known as Potter's Field, was the first non-denominational cemetery in York, Upper Canada (now Toronto, Ontario).It was established in 1826 as the York General Burying Ground, [1] and it was later known as the Toronto General Burying Ground after the town of York became the city of Toronto in 1834.