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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
Canadian Headstones is a project to capture digital images and the complete transcription of cemetery stones. It is a web-based Canadian non-profit corporation run completely by volunteers. It is a web-based Canadian non-profit corporation run completely by volunteers.
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
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.
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.
The cemetery was again reopened for burials in 1931, receiving its last Canadian burial in 1947. Despite the cemetery's name, the large majority of the dead are British. The cemetery now contains the graves of 2,966 Commonwealth soldiers, a large portion of which are unidentified. The cemetery covers an area of 10,869 square metres and is ...
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 largest number of burials happen in the 1820s (72 graves), presumably the graves of the 155 Black Refugees who arrived in Halifax during the War of 1812. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The last erected and most prominent burial marker is the Welsford-Parker Monument , a Triumphal arch standing at the entrance to the cemetery commemorating British victory in ...