A Night for All Souls - Vancouver BC - October 25 - November 2, 2014

Don't miss the 10th annual All Souls celebrations at Vancouver's Mountain View Cemetery.  The events begin Saturday, October 25, from 6-10 pm.

The Cemetery's Celebration Hall will be open 6 to 9 pm for tea, personal memorial making and evening programming throughout the entire memorial week until Sunday, November 2.

 For more information, see:
 http://vancouver.ca/your-government/tours-events-mountain-view-cemetery.aspx

This year I will be reflecting particularly on those of my family who served, and some who died in World War I.  A number of Canada's war dead from both World War I and II are buried at Mountain View, and many more are remembered on family headstones. 

Mountain View Cemetery - at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Canadian World War I dead, Jones section, Mountain View Cemetery, City of Vancouver, BC, Canada. Photograph, M. Diane Rogers, November 2013.

Genea-Blogger Treasure Hunt update

Not much time for anything lately, but I have been working on the Genea-Blogger 'Treasure Hunt' though. Everyday I've spent a least a few minutes sorting and filing.

Nothing so far was a real surprise, but I'm sure there will be one or two. Many of these things are things I put 'somewhere safe' , knowing I'd want to get to them 'later'.

I did find the little family posters I will need very soon for the 'Night for All Souls' at Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver - commemorating my great grandparents, Sarah Ann Staines and David Saggers, my grandparents, Sarah Saggers and Joe Rogers, my uncle, David Rogers, and my parents, Muriel Scott and George Rogers. All of them are buried in Mountain View.

I also have one for great uncle Herbert Saggers. He was buried in France during World War I, but I know my grandmother Sarah would want her brother, 'Bert', included.