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Chinese Cemetery 1598 Townsite Road Nanaimo BC Nanaimo municipality Christian Science Society Building ...
There were 36 Chinese in Nanaimo by 1871. In 1874 there were 200 Chinese in the Chinatown; the city had incorporated that year. In 1877 300 people, 296 of whom were coal miners employed by the VCC, lived in the Nanaimo Chinatown and that of Wellington, which at the time was a separate community. 206 of the miners lived in Nanaimo and 90 lived ...
Chinese Cemetery is a name given to many cemeteries around the world, generally in English speaking countries that have or had a significant ethnic or immigrant Chinese community. Some notable cemeteries sometimes referred to as "Chinese Cemetery" are:
The Freemasons served as the sole community organization of the Chinese in Nanaimo since the 1959 fire. [135] Prior to 1959 Nanaimo had multiple Chinese associations. The Rising China Holding Company, the owner of the third Chinatown, in a period prior to 1959 served as the de facto government of the area.
A cemetery on the shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca with the largest concentration of pre-1950 Chinese mortuary features in Canada; a memorial to Chinese-Canadian pioneer immigrants Christ Church [20] 1861 (completed) 1994 Hope
The oldest cemetery in the city of Vancouver, it is the resting place of 145,000 people, including numerous notable figures in the city's history. Ocean View Burial Park, Burnaby – Tommy Burns , Michael Cuccione , Miles Mander , Charles Merritt , Roy Conacher , Thomas Dufferin Pattullo
Different rituals are carried out in different parts of China and many contemporary Chinese people carry out funerals according to various religious faiths such as Buddhism or Christianity. However, in general, the funeral ceremony itself is carried out over seven days, and mourners wear funerary dress according to their relationship to the ...
In 1903 the Chinese Consolidate Benevolent Association in Victoria purchased land at Harling Point for a cemetery. Between 1903 and 1908 Chinese graves in the Ross Bay Cemetery were opened, the bodies exhumed and transferred to the Chinese Cemetery about 2 km (1 mi) away. The Cemetery remained in use until the 1950s when it was closed.