Mountain View Cemetery
5455 Fraser Street V5W 2Z3 Vancouver, BC, Canada

Beautiful signs made by a local artist (Keely O’Brien) for our 2020 All Souls (COVID-19) Event

Remembering... at Mountain View Cemetery. From the creative vision of Mark Haney.

Moving video from Sarah Race capturing the essence of All Souls in 2020

Join us for a virtual Remembrance Day ceremony: Presentation begins at 10:45am Ceremony begins at 10:53am (20min)... Please visit http://ww75.littlechambermusic.com PROGRAM Welcome - Yvette Monique Gray Music - Laura Williams Helden (from 11) Meaghan Williams, double bass Project Information - Yvette Monique Gray Trumpet Statement - "We are here to Remember" 2 minutes of silence Introduction - Johanne Charest (French and English) WW75 - A Waltz for Brass and Choir performed by the Vancouver Bach Choir with Audrey Patterson and Jeremy Vint - trumpets, Nick Anderson - french horn, Marina Antoniou - trombone, Marc Lindy - tuba composed by Mark Haney Vancouver Bach Choir Conductor - Cathrie Yuen Soprano - Cecilia Cheung, Rosie Christie, Laura Crowe, Annette Dorrepaal, Lydia Gennai, Anita Lindsay, Gillian Mitchell, Mary Morrison, Rosemary Ramsay, Elisa Rolston, Lelainnie Roscoe, Catherine Senay, Nerissa Suen, Neysa Wiens, Gillian Wilder Section leader - Cassie Luftspring Alto - Barb Cave, Brenda Chandler, Jenny Chu, Jennifer Cote, Nancy Ferguson, Maureen Hole, Joanna Lehmann, Liz Lloyd, Beatrice Poon, Christine Riek, Tracey Rusnak, Trish Schulte, Sandra Shephard, Trish Smith, Ingrid Stairs, Wendy Verbass, Olga Volkoff, Carmen Wiseman Section leader - Kaylene Chan Baritone - John Ashworth, Jim De La Hunt, Ron Hagerman, Christer Hallberg, Tom Heffron, Johann Krebs, Glenn Lee, Ian Morrison, Stephen Pickett, Chris Sedergreen, Peter Stewart, Doug Wiebe Section leaders - Rob Workman (tenor), Jaime Yoon (bass) Leslie Dala - Music Director Nina Horvath - Executive Director Brass recorded at Afterlife Studios Bach Choir Section Leaders recorded at Blue Light Studio Editing and mixing by David Gannett Film and Timelapse by Sarah Race Photography 2nd Camera - Sally Zori https://youtu.be/o-rMScfmvOk

In tribute to our veterans. Remembrance Day 2020.

More than 12,000 veterans are buried within Mountain View Cemetery. The following Google Maps provide a sense of what that represents across our 106 acre site. Lest We Forget....... Abray North Blocks 1 to 3: (1,375 veterans) https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit Abray North Blocks 4 and 5: (1,182 veterans) https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit Abray North Blocks 6 and 7: (1,851 veterans) https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit Abray South Blocks 20 and 21: (1,562 veterans) https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit Abray South Blocks 17 to 19: (1,285 veterans) https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit Horne2 Block 13: (1,151 veterans) https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit Horne2 Blocs 14 and 15: (1,809 veterans) https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit Horne2 Block 16: (1,265 veterans) https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit Commonwealth War Graves Commission enhanced sites: (440 veterans) https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit Veterans outside of the main Fields of Honour: (126 that we know of so far) https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit

With the changes required this year due to COVID a separate page has been established for All Souls. Information will be posted and shared via our main Mountain View Cemetery page as well

....a great honour to do this work.

Numerous photos of the infant area taken by our photographer-in-residence

We just recently posted a video on our YouTube channel from another great musical event at Mountain View Cemetery almost 2 years ago. https://youtu.be/N1Btvi-orME

Enjoy this computer generated fly-over of our 106 acres and 102,000 graves. The output is from Underhill Geomatics in Burnaby (via drone footage from topographical survey work we needed done as part of our $2.7m, 4-year project to restore more than 7,300 military markers in our two largest Fields of Honour.

Probably not very appropriate to suntan on the graves. Especially in one of our military areas? Just sayin...

Thank you for bagging your dog’s droppings. Sure wish you would not leave them on graves for cemetery staff to clean up. You chose to bring your dog - and it’s poop - here. Please take it home with you. The poop and the dog.

Ken assisted many MVC families over the past 18 years as well.

Thank you for the chat, neighbour Pat!

Marina Szijarto is one of two founding artists of the Night For All Souls at MVC. She has created a website as an arts based community project to honour and name those who have died, especially those during these unprecedented times. https://lovingmemoryshrines.wordpress.com/

We received this email from some local bird watchers: This morning we observed Savannah Sparrows carrying food to young in a well hidden ground nest in one of the meadows the cemetery gardener and others created and tend. It’s hard to express how thrilled we are about this! There couldn’t be better evidence of the success of your meadow growing efforts in providing important bird habitat. Savannah Sparrows migrate through the cemetery each year in spring. But this year we ...noticed a male singing persistently after the migrants had left. Curious. In recent walks we’ve had glimpses of a Savannah, but this morning saw a pair, in the same area, carrying food to a particular meadow spot, close to two tall trees. I could hear little persistent high pitched peeps. We were able to catch a photo of an adult carrying food down. We are concerned about the nearby weed whacking. The mowers were busy on the other side of the path this morning. Fingers crossed they won’t be close enough today or in the next few days to injure the birds or nestlings. The nest is a ground nest and should otherwise be fairly well protected by the surrounding vegetation. We thought you and the gardener would be happy to hear of the success of your habitat efforts! Having enough wildness for Savannah’s to nest is truly note-worthy.

Plans had been in place for many months for a candlelight ceremony commemorating the contribution and sacrifice of Canadian soldiers toward the liberation of the Netherlands 75 years ago. Due to COVID-19 only a few members of the committee were able to participate in a small ceremony. More than 50,000 tulips were planted alongside the road joining Fields of Honour in Mountain View Cemetery.