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| Private H.C. Saunders Mountain View Cemetery Vancouver, BC, Canada |
This weekend, while wandering around the Mountain View
Cemetery in Vancouver searching for the grave of Herbert Charles Saunders, my
great grandfather, I realized that I was in a military section of the
graveyard, judging by the markings on all the headstones. Here is a photo of
Herbert’s gravestone, which I was able to find fairly easily using the
iCemetery app on my iPad. I had wondered why my great grandmother, Faith
Saunders, was not buried with him, and the fact that he is buried with other soldiers
may help to answer that question. I am supposing that the Canadian government must
have paid for the burial of veterans, but not necessarily for their spouses. Faith
Cook Saunders (1888 to 1974) was buried at the Ocean View Burial Park in
Burnaby, where her mother, Emma Green Cook, and two of her siblings are also
buried. I hope to visit there soon.
If you are interested in Herbert’s military service, please
see my previous blogposts relating to his life.
You can find the www.findagrave.com
memorial I created for him at:
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