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    Ross Bay Cemetery - different sections of the cemetery

    Ross Bay Cemetery

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    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.

    West Coast Monuments - funeralservices - Updated May 2026

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