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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
![Debris mound, [between 1911 and 1912] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/371/413-003.jpg?width=280)
Debris mound
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription88874
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1911 and 1912]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 19 x 24 cm on 30 x 34.5 cm backing
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of T. and W. Townley's debris mound of trees and stumps after clearing land at an unidentified location in Burnaby.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1911 and 1912]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Anne Sievenpiper subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 19 x 24 cm on 30 x 34.5 cm backing
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 413-003
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS2001-02
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of T. and W. Townley's debris mound of trees and stumps after clearing land at an unidentified location in Burnaby.
- Subjects
- Land Clearing
- Names
- Townley, T.
- Townley, W.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Addington, H.E.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note in handwritten script in blue ink on verso of photograph reads: " 1911-12/ "[scrap]"
Images
![Debris mound, [between 1911 and 1912] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/371/413-003.jpg)