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Alta Vista Baptist Church
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark557
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Description
- Church building.
- Associated Dates
- 1936
- Other Names
- Royal Oak Community Church
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Other Names
- Royal Oak Community Church
- Geographic Access
- Royal Oak Avenue
- Associated Dates
- 1936
- Description
- Church building.
- Heritage Value
- This Baptist congregation originally held services in a tent at the corner of McGregor Avenue and Portland but they soon were able to build a small church. A membership drive by Pastor Arthur James Bowbrick (1875-1961) was so successful that the congregation was able build this fine structure, prominently located at the corner of Victory Street. Although it has been altered with later additions and stucco over the original siding, the original windows and the rooftop belfry remain.
- Locality
- Alta Vista
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Alta Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Sussex-Nelson Area
- Ownership
- Private
- Street Address
- 7175 Royal Oak Avenue
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
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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)