Our Reading Room
We have established a reading room at the cemetery featuring a number of interesting books. Drop by the cemetery during office hours (8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) and take a look.
Please note: The books are available to be read at the cemetery office (and in a private room, space permitting, if reading for extended periods). Our books are reference works only and can't be borrowed or loaned.
Books available right now:
| Lest We Forget. A History of the Last Post Fund 1909-1999 | Serge M. Durflinger |
| The Dead Good Funerals Book. "A no-nonsense, nuts and bolts approach to make a very practical guide to the art of improving funerals" | Sue Gill and John Fox |
| Grave Matters. A journey through the modern funeral industry to a natural way of burial | Mark Harris |
| A Fine View of the Show. Letters from the Western Front | Andrew Jackson |
| Rest in Peace. A cultural history of death and the funeral home in twentieth-century America | Gary Laderman |
| Memorials by Artists for young people, children and babies | Harriet Frazer & Hilary Meynell |
| The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Annual Report 2008-2009 | CWGC |
| Wild Girl & Gran | Nan Gregory |
| Royal Oak Burial Park. A History and Guide | Dave Obee |
| Old Canadian Cemeteries. Place of Memory | Jane Irwin |
| Private Grief, Public Mourning. The Rise of the Roadside Shrine in BC | John Belshaw & Diane Purvey |
| I Died Laughing - Funeral Education with a Light Touch | Lisa Carlson |
| Stiff - The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers | Mary Roach |
| Dealing Creatively with Death. A Manual of Death Education and Simple Burial | Ernest Morgan |
| The Heart Does Break - Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning | George Bowering and Jean Baird |
| Stories in Stone - A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography | Douglas Keister |
| Last Landscapes - The Architecture of the Cemetery in the West | Ken Worpole |
| BC War Memorials - An Index of Names | BC Genealogical Society |
| The BC Genealogist - March, June, September & December/09 March 2010 | BC Genealogical Society |
