While most of the graves in Ross Bay Cemetery are of historical figures from the 19th and early 20th centuries, here is the stone that marks...

John Dean was a pioneer businessman active in many areas of life in 19th and early 20th century Victoria. He had a house in Esquimalt but in...

I was touched to see the perfect mementos devotees have used to decorate the grave of one of Victoria's best known and best loved artist...

I mentioned in yesterday's post that Ross Bay Cemetery is the final resting place of many of Victoria's important early residents an...

Regular visitors here will know that I often like to browse among the graves in our oldest colonial cemetery on Ross Bay because so many of ...

It's easy to get a little melancholy when wandering around a graveyard, especially when one sees the grave markers of young children. In...

Most of the graves are marked with simple stone memorial markers with the name, dates of birth and death and perhaps a phrase or quotation o...

Originally the inhabitants of the graveyard were buried in different sections according to their religious affiliations - Anglican, Presbyte...

Our weather seems to have been unseasonably warm for the last few weeks but I was still surprised at how many flowering plants were already ...

I mentioned on Saturday that the Ross Bay Cemetery holds many Victoria citizens who were prominent in the early days of the city. Probably n...

On the eastern side of Clover Point is a large semicircular bay called Ross Bay. It's named after one of the early factors of the Hudson...

Above is the family mausoleum of Kenneth MacKenzie, his wife Agnes and other members of their family. It is located right next to the plot o...

Friday's balmy weather stretched right through the long weekend and I took advantage of it to begin a project - getting to know the Ross...

From The Daily Colonist, May 27, 1896 : Victoria's Queen's Birthday carnival, so auspiciously inaugurated with unalloyed enjoyment f...

The City of Victoria has a very short history, being founded only 168 years ago. Most of us become aware of it through our carefully preserv...

The shoreline that defines most of Victoria is a scalloped in a series of "bays" with "points" separating them. Here I a...

On my way home from Gonzales Hill Park last weekend I stopped at Ross Bay Cemetery, which is just below the park. It is a splendid place to ...

Actually, this is a crow, not a raven as might be suggested by the quote above, but I think it makes a suitable introduction to the Ross Bay...