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Ocean View Burial Park - Landscape

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark629
Repository
Burnaby Heritage Planning
Description
Cemetery site.
Associated Dates
1919
Street View URL
Google Maps Street View
Repository
Burnaby Heritage Planning
Geographic Access
Imperial Street
Associated Dates
1919
Description
Cemetery site.
Heritage Value
Burnaby’s landmark Ocean View Burial Park was British Columbia’s first non-sectarian cemetery created as a for-profit business enterprise. Organized by a group of local investors headed by Lieut. Col. G.H. Dorrell, the Ocean View Cemetery Company offered a place for burials that was not owned or associated with a civic government, religious or fraternal organization. The cemetery’s design was the vision of Albert F. Arnold, an officer of the Canadian Financiers Trust Company, who was “...always depressed by the lack of beauty in so many places of internment and inevitable neglect that finally reduced them to long-grassed places of unhappy memories.” One local newspaper described the landscape of the cemetery: "The design includes ornamental trees and shrubs, beautiful flower beds and smooth winding walks and drives, with a total absence of the usual somewhat ostentatious reminders of the harvest garnered by the grim reaper."
Locality
Alta Vista
Historic Neighbourhood
Alta Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)
Planning Study Area
Suncrest Area
Architect
Albert F. Arnold
Area
359280.00
Contributing Resource
Landscape Feature
Ownership
Private
Street Address
4000 Imperial Street
Street View URL
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Elementary composition

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary6463
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Author
Alexander, William John, 1855-1944
Mowat, A.
Publication Date
c1912
Call Number
372.6 ALE
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection
Special Collection
Material Type
Book
Accession Code
BV985.755.1
Call Number
372.6 ALE
Author
Alexander, William John, 1855-1944
Mowat, A.
Place of Publication
Toronto
Publisher
The Educational Book Co., Limited
Publication Date
c1912
Physical Description
xii, 220 p. : ill. ;19 cm.
Inscription
On front pastedown "The Alberta School Supply Company School & Library Books, EDMONTON, ALTA." [stamped in black ink and enclosed in an oval] On front endpaper "E.L. Keyes Bezanson, P.O. Alberta." {handwritten in pencil] "E.L. Keyes" [handwritten in light green pencil crayon] Various scribbling throughout the book in pencil and light green pencil crayon
Library Subject (LOC)
English language--Textbooks
English language--Composition and exercises
Notes
Author's given name and dates : Alexander, William John, 1855-1944.
"Authorized by the Minister of Education for Alberta." -- title page
Includes index
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