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Forest Lawn Memorial Park
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark579
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Description
- Cemetery site.
- Associated Dates
- 1935
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Geographic Access
- Royal Oak Avenue
- Associated Dates
- 1935
- Description
- Cemetery site.
- Heritage Value
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park was founded and designed by Albert F. Arnold, who wanted to design a memorial park “which would be a place of perpetual beauty and which would banish the ‘graveyard’ taint from such places forever.” The 145 acres of Forest Lawn were designed as a garden, which overlooks Vancouver and has a magnificent view of the mountains. Called “God’s Acres,” with white-shelled walks and piped sacred music, the design allowed a natural setting to offer solace to grieve. Bronze memorial plaques were used rather than headstones, which would have marred the garden effect. Arnold acted as a consultant to memorial parks all over Canada and the United States and many of his innovations have become standard practice in North American cemeteries. Equipped with its own greenhouses, the park has more than a million plants of all types. The chapel, which sits on the lower southern slopes, is a sophisticated modernist structure that was designed by renowned local architects McCarter & Nairne.
- Locality
- Burnaby Lake
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Douglas-Gilpin Area
- Architect
- Albert F. Arnold McCarter & Nairne
- Area
- 449910.00
- Contributing Resource
- Landscape Feature
- Building
- Ownership
- Private
- Street Address
- 3789 Royal Oak Avenue
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
Images
![Forest Lawn Memorial Park buildings and lawns, [1958]. City of Burnaby. Photo ID 067-001. thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Planning_Images/_Unrestricted/Inventory/BBY-3789-Royal-Oak-Av-1958-Archives%20067-001.jpg)
Application by Forest Lawn Memorial Park Company for Approval of the Site of DL 81 as a Cemetery under the Cemetery Companies Act
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport55503
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 71614
- Meeting Date
- 5-Jun-1935
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 71614
- Meeting Date
- 5-Jun-1935
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Petition to BC Motor Transportation Co. for Bus Stop on the Grandview Highway between Forest Lawn Memorial Park and Douglas Road
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport48630
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 48371
- Meeting Date
- 26-Jul-1948
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 48371
- Meeting Date
- 26-Jul-1948
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Presentation of a Coloured Picture of the Forest Lawn Memorial Park
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport54766
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 70865
- Meeting Date
- 11-Jan-1939
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 70865
- Meeting Date
- 11-Jan-1939
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Request for Construction of Sidewalk from Murrin Station to Forest Lawn Memorial Park
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport54927
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 71031
- Meeting Date
- 8-Jun-1938
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 71031
- Meeting Date
- 8-Jun-1938
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds