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.
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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.
Find out more about our interment options, columbaria niches, memorial services, renting the Celebration Hall & Courtyard, our All Souls event, cemetery history, or interesting citizens page.
Looking for a burial record? Start here.
Mountain View is the only Canadian Cemetery recognized by the Green Burial Council
What's Happening at the Cemetery
Open House July 11th. 11:00 am- 3:00 pm
Summer and the cemetery! On Sunday, July 11th., come out and enjoy a day of activities, including kite making, music and walking tours and a peek into the works yard. Here's our postcard [pdf] and the poster [pdf] Here's the our Open House page.
Events are centred around the Celebration Hall and Courtyard. enter off of Fraser at 39th Avenue.
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Mountain View in the News
Follow this link for a great story and video from the Vancouver Sun on the cemetery.
Follow this link for an excellent interview with the Manager of Mountain View on the Daily Undertaker site
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Events at Mountain View
Check our events page, join the Facebook group for updates, follow the Twitter feed or add your name to our mailing list. Don't forget our Flickr group for your photos.
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Mountain View Awarded Again
On Saturday, May, 8, 2010, the Architectural Institute of BC (AIBC) hosted their annual awards ceremony where Mountain View Cemetery received a Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia Award in Architecture (Merit category) for the three buildings. The work was identified as "a project that honours the full range of human experience through sensitive architecture and design."
With this latest recognition, the entire cemetery renovation project (both buildings and landscape) are now award winning achievements. Last year the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects bestowed a regional merit award to the landscape and columbaria portion of the work.
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Second Infant Area Finished
This small area, one of three sections of the cemetery where infants are buried, located close to Celebration Hall was designed to accommodate various types of commemoration. Along with a stylized dry stream bed the area is planted with numerous bulbs. More...
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Look For Our "no elephants" Signs
We have new signs up to remind visitors that dogs must be on a leash in the cemetery. Here's the story in the Province.
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Anniversaries: Rogers Pass Disaster
March 4, 2010 was the 100th anniversary of the largest avalanche accident in Canada. 58 men died in the accident, 32 Japanese men are buried at Mountain View. The cemetery is working on a program to appropriately mark and interpret the site. To begin with 16 new flowering cherry trees from the Park Board nursery have been planted by the graves. More...
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Reading Room Opens
New: Some new titles have been added to our reading room
at the Cemetery Office. Come in and browse the growing collection. More...
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Mountain View has its own YouTube Channel
We have a number of videos available on YouTube. Check them out.
Open House and Rededication 2009
Mountain View's first open House was a great success. Over 400 people participated in walking tours, listened to music and took in a variety of displays during the day.
- Check out some photos of the day here.
The cemetery was rededicated in a ceremony that featured a First Nations blessing, speeches by the Mayor, a civic historian, the poet laureate, and an emotional speech by the Cemetery's general manager.
Read the poem written for the rededication by Poet Laureate Brad Cran
To see some video from the day check our YouTube channel.
New Columbaria
Niches
Construction is finished and we are now able to offer new columbaria niches for cremated remains for sale.
Celebration Hall & Courtyard
The Celebration Hall provides a perfect setting for memorial services, and is also an ideal venue for any number of events, from corporate retreats, client appreciation events or employee incentive gatherings to film screenings and small concerts.
