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Visit Mountain View Cemetery

Visit Mountain View Cemetery - Vancouver's only City-run cemetery

Mountain View Cemetery offers an ideal setting where you can engage with nature and history.  

Since the cemetery opened in 1886, it has become the final resting place of almost 150,000 people, including:

  • Vancouver mayors
  • Firefighters and police officers who died while on active duty
  • WWI and WWII veterans
  • Freemasons, Knights of Pythias, and Odd Fellows members
  • Victims of disasters, including the SS Sophia, Lakeview Tram, and Rogers Pass 

Walking tours

Take part in the cemetery's popular walking tour series. Watch for dates and times, follow Mountain View on Facebook or Twitter for updates, or email the cemetery to add your name to our event notification list.

Tours are held rain or shine, $10 (cash) per person.

Mountain View hosts regular walking and cycle tours, providing visitors with the history and stories of the cemetery. Most tours are $10 per person (cash only) and last approximately two hours, rain or shine.

Self-guided tours

If you would like to take a self-guided walk through Mountain View, be sure to download one of our walking tour brochures.

Contact Mountain View Cemetery directly with questions about our tours. 

All Souls

In many cultures around the world, the days at the end of October and the beginning of November are an important time for honouring the dead in our lives, through ceremony and celebration, and the practical maintenance of the family gravesites, including cleaning and decorating graves, feasts, flowers, lanterns, and candles.

All Souls at Mountain View Cemetery was created to provide opportunities for the public to commemorate their dead with a family-oriented community art event. Artists and community come together to create a sanctuary for remembrance and reflection. Events take place in the cemetery at the end of October each year.

Find Mountain View Cemetery

5455 Fraser St
Vancouver, BC
V5W 2Z3

Phone: 604-325-2646
Fax: 604-323-2647

Gate hours

7:00 am to 7:00 pm

Office hours

Monday to Friday
8:30 am to 4:00 pm

Closed weekends and holidays

Email

General Enquires: mountain.view@vancouver.ca

Cemetery Manager: glen.hodges@vancouver.ca

Assistant Manager
Business Operations: robin.naiman@vancouver.ca

Find us on a map

Ask. Tell. Connect.

Phone 3-1-1 to ask, tell, and connect with the City

Outside Vancouver:
604-873-7000

Speak your own language

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More ways to contact us

Mobile burial site lookup

iCemetery app for iOS

If you use an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, search cemetery records by name and zoom in on the grave site. An Android app is also being planned.

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Last modified: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:42:52