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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
- Google Maps Street View
Images
Sunset o'er Burnaby Lake
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription88875
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1947
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 painting : watercolour ; 20 x 30 cm on paper 28 x 38 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a watercolour painting by J. Adams of the sunset over Burnaby Lake from the George Derby home.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1947
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Ephemera subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 painting : watercolour ; 20 x 30 cm on paper 28 x 38 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- MSS195-001
- Access Restriction
- Open access
- Accession Number
- BHS2000-12
- Scope and Content
- Item is a watercolour painting by J. Adams of the sunset over Burnaby Lake from the George Derby home.
- Media Type
- Graphic Material
- Creator
- Adams, J.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of painting
- Note in black ink in handwritten script on front of painting reads: "Sunset o'er Burnaby Lake / from George Derby Home/ April 12th 1947"