Nanaimo Public Cemetery (555 Bowen Rd)

[Flugel Horn]

Some more flat markers:
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Many of the older markers are just simple with the family name shown. Muir is a name of historical significance, one of the first mining families to arrive on Vancouver Island in 1848 (on the ship Harpooner).



Here is a very old, and simple marker. Alexander is likely the father of John Shaw, for whom a school was named.



Here's an old and delicate marker. (sorry about the goose-poop)



I'm assuming that Joseph was one of Mark Bate's sons.



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Here's a family tragedy: 3 members killed at same time. Wife and 2 young sons.


And here's the tribute marker:

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[Flugel Horn]

....and here's my last bunch of pictures:

These are items of recent history, or of personal meaning to me.

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"Happy" Hall was Nanaimo's first ever female city councillor. She was later awarded the "freedom of the city".



Earle Westwood was Nanaimo's mayor in the 1950's. His grandfather had the farm that is now submerged in Westwood lake.


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This is the marker of my Grand-Mother's sister and brother-in-law.
- This lady's death in 1973 is one of my earliest extended family memories.
- Her husband died in 1953 far too soon; he was killed crossing the road at the intersection of East Wellington and Bowen roads.
- This wonderful couple sponsored my father's family to immigrate to Canada from post-war Germany. I owe my existence to their act of kindness.


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This couple lived a humble life of amazing Christian service to their community.
- Evelyn grew up in Penticton, and she would take my mom (as a young girl) to Sunday-school.
- Art was a fixture in downtown Nanaimo doing the Christmas-cheer kettle. He had a great sense of humour.


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Here's one last marker that I'm still trying to figure out....


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I'm glad people are enjoying this thread. As you can tell, I really enjoy photographing local historical sites and also enjoy the work of playing with the photos on the computer (good old Picasa to lighten, sharpen, etc), and I love to share them on a public place like this forum.

My disappointment for today:
- I was hoping to see grave markers for Frank Ney and Pete Maffeo. Maybe I just missed them, after I gave up on methodical row-by-row walking?

[Nostradama]

"My disappointment for today: - I was hoping to see grave markers for Frank Ney and Pete Maffeo. Maybe I just missed them, after I gave up on methodical row-by-row walking?"

Sorry, I messed things up with my deletions.

Does anyone know where Frank Ney is buried? I've never known, but I have a theory. If someone knows for sure, I'd like to know, too.

[Flugel Horn]

Does anyone know where Frank Ney is buried? I've never known, but I have a theory. If someone knows for sure, I'd like to know, too.

My quiet source tells me "Cedar cemetery".

[Pastilla]

I was very moved at the tribute to the couple who sponsored your family

Wonder what happened to the mother and two toddler sons of the Burrell family in 1979? From the way it was worded, it sounded like some sort of boating/water accident.

[Flugel Horn]

I was very moved at the tribute to the couple who sponsored your family

Wonder what happened to the mother and two toddler sons of the Burrell family in 1979? From the way it was worded, it sounded like some sort of boating/water accident.

Regarding family history: Sometimes I just take for granted the various events that combined to have my parents meet each other in Nanaimo in the 1960's.
- but when I stop and consider the various circumstances, it makes me be thankfully amazed at how things turned out for everyone.

The couple who's headstone that I photographed emigrated from Germany/Poland (the borders kept changing....) sometime before WWII (or maybe it was just the lady...I'm not sure), and were in Pincher Creek, Alberta, until shortly before my father came to Canada in 1949. So if this couple hadn't moved to Wellington in the late 1940's, my father would have ended up in Southern Alberta.

Lots of twists and turns in life....

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I did a Google search on the Burrell name and "1979", and didn't find anything. Sometimes there are websites that mention tributes, memorial events, memorial-awards, etc. Nothing pops into my mind from my remembrances of newspaper stories from when I was a kid reading the Daily Free Press.

[queen of the waterfront]

Ha Ha! Flugelhorn You are hilarious!

What a view that cemetery has!
Will you become a photo historian I wonder?
I love the pics.

[Nostradama]

I wondered if Raymond Collishaw might be buried here, so wiki'd him last night, and he isn't. He died in West Vancouver, so I'm assuming that he's buried there, and certainly that's his family's right and his family's decision. But when I had finished reading all about him, I knew a lot more about him than I'd ever known before. Very, very interesting, and a hugely successful career, far beyond what I'd ever known before. I had a good look at one of his uniforms in a glass case at the Raymond Collishaw (Nanaimo) airport many years ago, on loan from his family just after the name change, but having read much more about him now, it would mean a great deal more.

[Spence]

Reserve Mine was in the Harmac area. So called I believe because it was located on #5 Reserve. When Harmac was under construction the route to the mill was along Cedar Rd. to the old Cedar bridge, when you went across, you turned right and went up Cedar Rd. past the Cranberry and into the village. To go to Harmac you proceeded straight ahead and onto a gravel road that wanders down past the farms, the back of the longhouse, and comes out at the big farm on the left of the Duke Pt highway, in the dip. From there it wound over the hill and out to Harmac. This road was called the Jane Gordon Road. It was her estate that M&B bought to acquire the property for Harmac. Harmac's address in the old phone books I have is listed as Reserve Mine Rd. The paved road from the new Cedar bridge to McMillan road which is called Harmac Road, was completed I believe in the late 70's. A trip to Harmac before that was across the old bridge up Cedar Rd. to Mcmillan and back down to the existing road today. (Minus the the Duke Pt. highway). If York Lake(the swamp at the bottom of the hill by Cedar school) flooded, Harmac workers had to go out to and go left on Woodbank Rd. over to Holden Corso and back to McMillan togo around the flooding.

[Bunky]

This is a fantastic thread. Very interesting and touching. Thank you!!!