About Mountain View Cemetery - City of Vancouver
Mountain View Cemetery is a large and peaceful place to visit loved ones or take a walk with your dog. The cemetery stretches for miles, offering panoramic views of the North Shore Mountains. Visitors can read the graves and learn about the lives of those buried there. The staff are welcoming and respectful, accommodating cultural traditions and showing appreciation for the deceased. The cemetery is especially beautiful in early autumn, with deciduous trees lining the walkways. It's a calm and gorgeous place to spend quiet time, making it an ideal spot to honour loved ones or simply enjoy nature.
“Killed by Electric Car.”
The 1904 gravestone of 10-year-old Eddie Lukov is an uncanny reminder of the resettlement of Vancouver in the early age of industrialized progress. Potentially killed along the emerging electric streetcar corridor running on the old Indigenous trail and early Westminster/Kingsway route — before Fraser Street (North Arm Road) fully emerged as major commercial residential corridor. Stories like these echoes a city shaped by engineers like Tesla, Edison, and repopulated by migrants from places like Yiddish-Polish-Austrian Galicia into an emerging grand villages worlds away: to the original Granville core then South and out around...read full review
Full of historics stories of this Cemetery in Vancouver! Great place to explore interestings gravestones, tombstones, celebrities and historics stories. Another place to do some trail ( flat ground ) morning/ sunset walks.
My dad died and was buried here in 2015. I remember the staff was incredibly kind and compassionate to all my questions at a very difficult time. I haven’t visited my dad here in a long long time. I hope to come back again as I recall it being very peaceful here of those times when I did visit pre-Covid.