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Masonic interments British Columbia and Yukon There are currently 402 licensed cemeteries in British Columbia, plus an undermined number of inactive onesperhaps fifty or more. The following are links to a work in progress to catalogue extant masonic emblems. Armstrong, Lansdowne Atlin Cemetery Burnaby, Pacific Heritage [Masonic] Grand Forks Horsefly, Mountain View Kamloops Chinese Kamloops Hillside [to be surveyed] Kamloops Pioneer Kamloops Pleasant Street Kaslo North Vancouver 100 Mile House Manson Creek Phoenix (1901-1919) Savona Vancouver Mountain View Masonic Section Vancouver Masonic (Burnaby) Vernon Victoria Cemeteries Victoria Jewish Cemetery Washington State Point Roberts Cemetery The small cemeteries found at Barriere, Riverview Cemetery at Clearwater just off Station Road, Avola Cemetery, 2.3k off the highway on Messiter Station Road [51.804308,-119.314806], in Blue River on Blue Lake Forest Service Road near the railway tracks [52.116629,-119.318627], and Valemount, contained no markers with masonic imagery or symbols. What distinctive memorials remain are strongly Christian in nature, with crosses, orthodox crosses, extended Bible verses, images of open Bibles, and references to resurrection. There are no extant masonic emblems at Greenwood Cemetery, or the Provincial Old Men’s Cemetery in Kamloops. |
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Image: Mountain View Masonic Section, plot 021-0002. Note that geolocation information for monuments and markers is only accurate to within a radius of 15 metres (45 feet). |
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