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Cemeteries - Ross Bay Cemetery - Sea WallHistory | Gallery | Partitions | Sections | Sea Wall | Changes | Markers | Tour Until 1911 the cemetery extended all the way to the beach of Ross Bay and some graves were located very close to the shoreline. Dallas Road ran from Beacon Hill but ended when it reached what is now Memorial Crescent. Memorial Crescent was a narrow street called Lover's Lane which connected to Fairfield Road. For many years before the sea wall was built, there were stories of coffins floating out to sea and children playing with the bones of people whose graves had been washed away by the storms. In 1909 violent storms washed away much of the shoreline of Ross Bay as well as large chunks of the bank along sections N and L (mostly Chinese and Japanese, as well as First Nations peoples, were buried in these sections) of Ross Bay Cemetery. The City decided to build a concrete wall along Ross Bay and extend Dallas Road. Some graves were relocated and the Chinese community moved as many remaining Chinese burials as possible to the Chinese cemetery at Harling Point.
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