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Cemeteries
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- Ross Bay Cemetery - 1516 Fairfield Road in the
City of Victoria, one of Canada's oldest and largest surviving Victorian cemeteries.
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- Chinese Cemetery - Harling Point, Victoria - on
Crescent Road, this was Victoria's first and only exclusively Chinese cemetery, no longer
in use.
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- Jewish Cemetery - On Fern Hill Road at Cedar Hill
Road, opened in the 1860's, was BC's first Jewish cemetery. (Limited access)
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- Old Burying Ground (Pioneer Square) - Quadra Street between Meares Street
and Rockland Ave. in Victoria, contains some fine examples of Victorian
cemetery architecture. Victoria's second cemetery, it opened in 1855.
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- St. Luke's Anglican Church Cemetery - At Cedar Hill Road and Cedar Hill Cross Road. Please contact the church for access.
- St. Stephens Anglican Church Cemetery - On the Saanich Peninsula at Mount Newton Cross Road and St. Stephens Road. This 1880's cemetery is in a beautiful pastoral setting overlooking the Sannich Inlet.
- Holy Trinity Church Cemetery - On West Saanich Road at Mills Road,
this pioneer cemetery is in the yard of one of the oldest churches in BC.
- Shady Creek Church Cemetery - 7180 East Saanich Road
- St. Mary the Virgin Church Cemetery - 4354 Metchosin Road. This site is particularily beautiful in the early spring
when the grounds are covered with white lilies.
- Veterans Cemetery - In Esquimalt entrance off Colville Road near the Base Hospital. This cemetery is nestled between fairways of the Gorge Vale Golf Course. It was the Royal Naval Cemetery until 1947 when the Department of Veterans Affairs took over its operation and it became Veterans Cemetery.
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