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Ross Bay Cemetery was the target of vandals spraying graffiti overnight. City of Victoria workers found the cemetery’s Sir James Douglas monument, several trees and the main office smeared with ...
The surname Ross carries a special history in Victoria, marked by features such as Ross Bay and its adjacent cemetery. But according to Fern Perkins, a local historian and member of the Old ...
An online ad is offering up a pair of side-by-side cremations plots at Victoria’s Ross Bay Cemetery for an asking price of $40,000. WATCH (June 9, 2018): Historic B.C. cemetery concerned about ...
VICTORIA — Waves crash in the near distance ... A hike through the winding, tree-lined 40-hectare Ross Bay Cemetery includes spectacular views of the ocean with Washington state’s Olympic ...
Victoria police say they’ve never seen anything like it. Officers were called to the Ross Bay Cemetery Sunday night for a bizarre report of a man being chased by a person in a unicorn mask ...
Kyle Scott stood by the graves of Paris Carter, Edward Booth and Richard Stokes in Ross Bay Cemetery one morning this week — the only physical reminders of some of the men who proudly made up an ...
It’s difficult to believe but until 1963 the burial site of Emily Carr in Ross Bay Cemetery was unmarked. That year, the Victoria Historical Society installed a simple granite marker to ...
A Victoria cemetery has also had to contend with the elements. Before a sea wall was built to protect Victoria’s Ross Bay ­Cemetery in the early 1900s, “there were stories of coffins floating out to ...
A new monument to mark the grave of Emily Carr was unveiled this week at Victoria's Ross Bay Cemetery. The Carr family plot is one of the most-visited sites in the cemetery and the new stone gives ...
Each new marker costs about $2,000. Victoria’s Ross Bay Cemetery has been a major benefactor. Though he was born and raised in Alberta, the seaside cemetery has been one of Scott’s favourite ...