Mountain View Cemetery

cemetery at night

Welcome to Vancouver's Cemetery

Vancouver's only cemetery is located west of Fraser Street between 31st and 43rd Avenues. The cemetery's beautiful vistas and central location make it a place where many Vancouverites have chosen to honour the memories of their family and friends, and go for quiet contemplation. It's a unique, open space where city history is preserved.

Owned and operated by the City of Vancouver since 1886, Mountain View is made up of 106 acres of land with approximately 92,000 grave sites and 145,000 interred remains.

For the first time in more than 23 years Vancouver’s only cemetery has new spaces available for purchase. The award winning construction project at Mountain View Cemetery has resulted in more than 2,000 new spaces available for cremated remains.

Interment Options:

Interment options at Mountain View include Columbaria Niches, in-ground cremation space, and in-ground burial space. Information and pricing is available here

What's Happening Now...

  • Family Estates are now available. See our information card for more details.
  • Our Summer Event is the Vancouver Draw Down!

    Join us for genealogical walking tours (10:30 and 11:30 am) followed by the Tracing Memory Memorial Pinprick Drawing workshop with Elizabeth MacKenzie
    Saturday, June 9, 2012 from 11:00am - 1pm
    Mountain View Cemetery, Celebration Hall, 5445 Fraser Street, Vancouver BC
    More details about the event here

  • Walking Tours! We have a great set of tours this year. Check out the poster.

  • Mountain View's App! Yes, we have an app for the iphone. The app allows users to search cemetery records by name and then see the location of the grave on a zoomable aerial image of the cemetery. It's free. Available on itunes.

  • New Casket Space is Available
    We are very pleased to let you know that casket graves are now available for purchase. These new lots are located in the Masonic and Knights of Pythias sections which are in close proximity to the office building located by 39th and Fraser St. More information

  • New self guided walking tour is now available [pdf 1.5mb] and don't forget our other walking tour brochures here.

Find Out More About:

Memorial Services, Urns for Purchase, Renting the Celebration Hall & Courtyard,
Green Burial

All Souls Event, Cemetery History, Interesting Citizens, Burial Records, Current and Past Events, Walking & Self-guided Tours, The Reading Room

Walking Tours for 2012

The popular walking tour series will return in the new year. Watch for dates and times or add your name to our event notification list. All tours go rain or shine. No need to register and they are still just $10.00 (cash) per person.

Green Urns Now Available

Mountain View has a selection of Urns available for purchase. These are on display at the cemetery office. Check out the latest environmentally friendly options along with the rest of our selection.

Keep in Touch

To keep up to date with the cemetery, join the Facebook group for updates and news, follow the Twitter feed, watch YouTube, or add your name to our event notification list.

Don't forget our Flickr group for photographs. Our events page lists some of our annual and past events.



Why We are Green

Mountain View is recognized by the Green Burial Council as a hybrid cemetery. The council defines this as "conventional cemeteries offering the option for burial without the need for a vault (partial, inverted or otherwise), a vault lid, concrete box, slab or partitioned liner. Hybrid Burial Grounds shall not require the embalming of decedents and must allow for any kind of eco-friendly burial containers including shrouds."

Since its opening in 1887 Mountain View Cemetery has had few restrictions on burials leaving the majority of decisions to individual choice.


Look For Our "no elephants" Signs

We have signs up to remind visitors that dogs must be on a leash in the cemetery. Here's the story The Death Reference Desk

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Mountain View Cemetery Where Vancouver Remembers

 


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Important Notice Concerning Grave Reclamation

The City of Vancouver’s Mountain View Cemetery is preparing to make application to reclaim a number of graves (interment rights) that were sold BEFORE 1940; and have never been used.
For more information.

New Casket Space

We are very pleased to let you know that casket graves are now available for purchase.
More information

Interment Options

For the first time in more than 23 years Vancouver’s only cemetery has new spaces available for purchase.
More...

Celebration Hall & Courtyard

Celebration Hall & Courtyard provides a perfect setting for memorial services, and is also an ideal venue for any number of events.
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Memorial Services

Celebration Hall includes a reception area and family room, as well as the Caradoc Room with its adjoining courtyard. The building is fully wheelchair accessible.

More details, room descriptions and rates

Renting Celebration Hall & Courtyard

Celebration Hall offers a spacious reception area and the light-filled Caradoc Room, which is perfect for meetings or sit-down lunches and dinners.

More details, room descriptions and rates

More About the Cemetery

All Souls, Our Annual Celebration
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Rogers Pass Commemoration
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Mountain View wins Architecture Award. "a project that honours the full range of human experience through sensitive architecture and design."
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Mountain View's Celebration Hall October 2009 issue of Canadian Architect magazine.

The Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Award
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Reading Room opens
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Derek Bruen's public artwork Plot It is the first piece of public art in the cemetery. Details here and a handy map [pdf] is here.

interview with the Daily Undertaker
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A poem written about Mountain View: Negotiating With the Dead

How to Find Us

Mountain View is located between 31st and 43rd Avenue and Fraser Street.

Our entrance is at 39th Avenue.

Coming by bus? The No. 8 stops near the entrance on fraser and the No. 41 Crown/UBC stops near 41st and Fraser. Visit translink for more info.

Use this map to find Celebration Hall and the office.

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Mountain View & VanMap

Now you can easily locate where someone is buried at Mountain View by using the Mountain View application in VanMap the City's mapping data base.

The above link takes you directly to the application which opens in a separate window.

Staying in touch...

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