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Canadian Headstones relies on volunteers, including genealogy enthusiasts, to upload photos. [4] The site steps a contributor through uploading a photo, editing it, choosing a county and cemetery, entering the names and inscription. [5]
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. Ocean View Burial Park, Burnaby – Tommy Burns , Michael Cuccione , Miles Mander , Charles Merritt , Roy Conacher , Thomas Dufferin Pattullo
Alderwoods Group, formally The Alderwoods Group, Inc., was a provider of funeral, cremation, and cemetery services in North America with operations in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Its executive office was in Toronto, Ontario, and it had administrative offices in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Burnaby, British Columbia.
Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of human and pet cemetery records. It is owned by Ancestry.com.Its stated mission is "to help people from all over the world work together to find, record and present final disposition information as a virtual cemetery experience."
Burial of Private Robert Whitehead (1896–1916), Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 95th Battalion, at Shorncliffe Military Cemetery Canadian war cemeteries are sites for the burial of Canadian military personnel who died in conflicts since Canadian Confederation in 1867.
A number of monuments and memorials in Canada were removed or destroyed as a result of protests and riots between 2020 and 2022. These included six sculptures of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada, three of other figures connected to the Canadian Indian residential school system (Alexander Wood, Egerton Ryerson and Joseph Hugonard), two of Canadian monarchs (Queen ...
A remarkable photograph of an American bald eagle perched atop of a veteran's gravestone went viral on Memorial Day, and reminded the nation the true reason for the national holiday.Sunday evening ...
On March 1, 2022, Kapawe'no First Nation announced the results of a search of 3696.5m 2 at the site of St. Bernard's Residential School. Conducted by the Institute for Prairie and Indigenous Archeology at the University of Alberta, it used ground-penetrating radar and multi-spectral imagery captured by drone.