Mountain View Cemetery

cemetery

Burials at Mountain View

An alphabetical listing of burials
Please note: The cemetery keeps more than one set of records. The official records are kept manually and are considered the main records. The information in the alphabetical listing has been transcribed from the official cemetery records and does contain errors and omissions. We are in the process of verifying the information. The list currently contains information up to January 2007.


Mayors of Vancouver Buried at Mountain View

Vancouver Firefighters buried at Mountain View
Men who have died while on active duty with the department

Vancouver Police officers buried at Mountain View
Men who have died while on active duty with the department

Interesting Citizens Buried at Mountain View
Do you have information about someone buried in our cemetery?
We'd like to know about them. E-mail your story and photographs to the cemetery.

Rogers Pass Slide Disaster of 1910
In March of 1910 a huge slide in the pass killed 62 men, 30 of which are buried at Mountain View.

New Westminster Railway Disaster of 1909

The Lakeview Tram disaster of 1909
The worst transit accident in Vancouver's history

A list of burials from the SS Sophia disaster of October 1918

WW1 and WW2 Military Burials including Victoria Cross winners.
A few short biographies of those that have served the country. This page is a work in progress, please contact the cemetery if you would like to contribute to this page.

Fraternal organizations at Mountain View

Cemetery Map: Use this map to find your way around the sections


Outside Links

Check Vancouver Archives and the Vancouver Public Library Genealogy links for information on Genealogy resources.

The Provincial Archives maintain searchable indexes of vital events (birth, death, marriage) on their site.

Capt. John (Gassy Jack) Deighton is buried in New Westminster's Fraser Cemetery.

 

 


The Cemetery on 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

Did You Know?

Mountain View has a Flickr Group, is on Facebook (if you don't have an account, you will need to create one) and Twitter - search for "mountainviewcem"