British Columbia Cemeteries

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Online Resources

• BillionGraves Index - index & images
• BillionGraves British Columbia page - photos and GPS locations of grave markers
• Find a Grave Index - index & images
• Find a Grave British Columbia Page - photos and GPS locations of grave markers
• Canadian Virtual War Memorial. This is a worldwide registry of military Canadian burials.
• British Columbia Cemetery Finding Aid is an online database index to 344,000 names from over 264 cemeteries in British Columbia, Canada.
• British Columbia Genealogical Society, Cemetery Committee, has links to most British Columbia cemetery indexes and databases online.
• Canadian Headstones - FamilySearch - Name index of headstone inscriptions courtesy of CanadianHeadstones, which is a family history database of records and images from Canada's cemeteries.
• Canadian Headstone Index, 1840-2017 at Ancestry ($)
• Canadian Headstones
• Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, Cemetery Records, 1901-2010 ($), index
• Mary's Genealogy Treasures Scroll down to cemetery listings.
• Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver Mountain View Cemetery at MyHeritage - index ($)

Jewish Cemeteries

• JewishGen has an inventory you can check. Click on Canada and then British Columbia.
• The Jewish Cemetery of British Columbia

Individual Cemeteries

• City of Vancouver, Cemetery Search. The Mountain View Cemetery burials list and the Vancouver Cemetery maps. Burial Index Search
• Ross Bay Cemetery The City of Victoria Cemetery.
• City of Kamloops Municipal Cemeteries, for the city's active and historical cemeteries.
• District of North Cowichan (Vancouver Island), Mountain View Cemetery burials before 1983.
• Old Cemeteries Society of Victoria website.

Additional Resources at the FamilySearch Library

To find cemetery records for British Columbia in the FamilySearch Catalog follow these steps:

1. Go to the FamilySearch Catalog
2. Enter: British Columbia in the Place box
3. Click on: Search
4. Click on: Cemeteries

To search for cemeteries at the town level, follow directions below.

1. Go to the FamilySearch Catalog
2. Enter: British Columbia in the Place box
3. Click on: Search
4. Click on: Cemeteries
5. Click on: Places within British Columbia
6. Click on the town you want to search
7. Click on: Cemeteries

Additional Resources

• Worldcat.org- Do a search for British Columbia Cemetery.
  
• Historic Guide to Ross Bay Cemetery Victoria B.C. by John Adams, Heritage Architectural Guides, Victoria, BC, 1983.
  
• Not so Gentle Art of Burying The Dead. The Real Story of How Cemeteries Began [New Westminster] by Hellen C. Pullem, New Westminster, BC, 1985.
  
• Sommer, Wayne. Frail Memorials: The Cemeteries of Langley, Corporation of the Township of Langley, Langley, BC, [2005]. FamilySearch
  
• Obee, Dave. Royal Oak Burial Park: A History and Guide Victoria, BC, [2008]. Available at WorldCat
  
• British Columbia Genealogical Society. St. Mary's Anglican Church (1965), Duncan, British Columbia, Canada : recording from the British Columbia Genealogical Society, British Columbia, Canada, Vancouver Island. [Richmond, B.C.] : [British Columbia Genealogical Society], [1974] Available at WorldCat
  
• Kory Shillam; Robert Shillam; British Columbia Genealogical Society. Pioneer Cemetery (1896-1902), Vernon, British Columbia : recording from the British Columbia Genealogy Society, British Columbia, Canada, North Okanagan [Richmond, B.C.] : British Columbia Genealogical Society, [2006]. Available at WorldCat
  

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