Funeral at Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, B.C.
PublicDepicts offerings on the altar table and the twin incinerator towers with metal doors allowing commemorative offerings to be burnt on the funeral at Ross Bay Cemetery. The first Chinese graves in Victoria were in the Old Burying Ground from 1858 to 1873. When Ross Bay Cemetery was opened in 1873 many of the Chinese graves were in Block L of Ross Bay Cemetery, where a Chinese altar table was set up. From 1873 through 1909, a total of 1178 Chinese were buried in Ross Bay Cemetery. In 1903 the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association in Victoria bought land at Harling Point as the new Chinese Cemetery. During the period from 1903 to 1908, many of the Chinese graves in Ross Bay Cemetery were exhumed and relocated to the new cemetery. Catalogue number: HP068244.
- d_05257 BCArchives
- 1 black and white photograph
- 48.4294, -123.3679
- 48.4359, -123.35155
- Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians
- Victoria's Chinatown Project Website: https://chinatown.library.uvic.ca/index.html
- 2012
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