The team at Earth's Option have been so incredibly nice, supportive, respectful, efficient - the…read morelist could go on and on. My siblings and I came to Victoria after our mother passed quickly and we needed help in figuring out what to do. Sarah, Colin and the entire team were incredibly responsive and had a number of helpful links, contacts, and resources to help us with mom and her eventual service - from finding officiants, spaces, musicians etc - they were amazing. I can't recommend them enough.

From the owner: Trust Earth's Option Cremation & Burial Services for assisting you in planning a funeral for you or…read moreyour loved ones in the Greater Victoria area. We offer a wide range of low cost cremation and green burial services, including biodegradable urns and green caskets. We understand how stressful it can be, which is why we come to you, in the comfort of your home. Please don't hesitate to visit our website or to call us for more information.

We had the opportunity to work with Sands twice in the last few years and both times the staff were…read morenothing but fantastic. Anthony, who we worked with, was wonderful and compassionate and kind, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend​ him and Sands for any of your funeral needs.

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Designated Canada National Historic Site…read more Interesting place if you're into this kind of stuff. I'm always curious about Chinese pioneers in Canada, especially when I see a grave maker with my family name and home village. The first Chinese that came to Canada were from one area of the Pearl River Delta in China at the turn of the 19th Century. A quick Google search of the specific neighbourhood village names revealed nothing. No references. Doesn't mean it never existed, because of name changes. My home county village had a name change, but I knew what that change was. Shame that this site had been vandalized over the years. There are a lot of knocked over headstones, and the inscriptions are so eroded, that you can't read some of them any more. Scenic and tranquil location.

This neighborhood wins the community lottery for any area I've known. Disclaimer : i don't live…read morehere.... But come here to visit relatives several times a year. There are people of all ages living in this area. During the summer, join weekly potlucks at the local playground. In the winter there are still plenty of sweet events. Access to public transit and beaches. Lovely people, lovely scenery.

HISTORY BUFFS DELIGHT!!…read more The website I included has a printable map of the cemetery, and dates for guided tours. Ross Bay Cemetery has the oldest surviving formal landscape design in BC and is a superb example of a Victorian-era burial ground. Its profusion of unusual trees and plantings, winding carriageways, graves with intriguing marble, sandstone and granite monuments, all bear witness to the people buried here. The City of Victoria Archives has an online burial database for Ross Bay Cemetery. The cemetery was opened in 1873. The 27.5 acre (111,000 m²) cemetery is part of a public park and its south side faces Ross Bay on the Pacific Ocean. There are sections by religious beliefs and by ethnicity. In 1911, a sea wall had to be constructed because of the severe erosion that occurred as a result of the relentless pounding of the ocean's waves. During the 1930s, the City began planting a large number of trees and today the cemetery is quite different from the original that was mainly barren ground. Some of the Japanese graves were washed away to sea. Some of the notable personalities among the more than 27,000 interred here are: Billy Barker (1819-1894), frontiersman, prospector Sir Frank Stillman Barnard (1856-1936), statesman Robert Beaven (1836-1920), statesman, Premier of British Columbia Sir Matthew Begbie (1819-1894), First Chief Justice of British Columbia Harlan Carey Brewster (1870-1918), statesman, Premier of British Columbia Emily Carr (1871-1945), painter Nellie Cashman (1845-1925), nurse and gold prospector Sir Henry Pering Pellew Crease (1823-1905) First BC Barrister and early Supreme Court Justice Sarah Lindley Crease (1826-1922), artist Alexander Edmund Batson Davie (1847-1889), statesman, Premier of British Columbia Theodore Davie (1852-1898), jurist, statesman, Premier of British Columbia Edgar Dewdney Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, 1892-1897. Amor De Cosmos (1825-1897), statesman, Premier of British Columbia Sir James Douglas (1803-1877), Hudson's Bay Co. executive, 1st Governor of British Columbia and 2nd Governor of Vancouver Island James Dunsmuir (1851-1920), businessman, statesman, Premier of British Columbia Andrew Charles Elliott (1828-1889), statesman, Premier of British Columbia Roderick Finlayson (1818-1892), considered the "Father of Victoria." John Hamilton Gray (1814-1889), pre-Confederation Premier of New Brunswick, a Father of Confederation and a BC Supreme Court Justice. Byron Ingemar Johnson (1890-1964), statesman, Premier of British Columbia Hannah Maynard (1834-1918), photographer Sir Richard McBride (1870-1917), statesman, Premier of British Columbia James E. McMillan (????-1907), mayor of Victoria in 1872 William Henry McNeill(1803-1875), Master of the SS Beaver from which, in 1843, while at McNeill Bay, Governor Douglas located Fort Victoria. Port McNeill is named for him. Joseph Despard Pemberton (1821-1893), Surveyor-General of Vancouver Island Sophie Pemberton (1869-1959), painter Edward Gawler Prior (1853-1920), statesman, Premier of British Columbia John Robson (1824-1892), statesman, Premier of British Columbia Isabella Mainville Ross Anishinaabe-Métis (1807-1885) first registered independent woman landowner in British Columbia George Anthony Walkem (1834-1908) statesman, Premier of British Columbia Many others are marked on the self guided tour map including the angel used on a US postal stamp. The cemetery contains the war graves of 135 Commonwealth service personnel, 133 from World War I and 2 from World War II.