"Find a Grave's mission is to help people from all over the world work together to find, record and present final disposition information as a virtual cemetery experience." - from Find a Grave website

EDITS - Please use the "Suggest Edits" button to send your RESEARCHED update or correction as per suggested by Find-A-Grave as a best practice (please see https://support.findagrave.com/s/article/Suggest-Edits-Overview) I will not spend time looking for something that you have already found. Therefore, you MUST include the source information you used in the new "NOTES" field, at the bottom of the edit form. For example, the death, marriage or birth registration NUMBER (not the link) and the province or state. Do NOT put it in the BIO field or send it via a message. Putting it in the NOTES field keeps the info with the suggested edit. This would be greatly appreciated and speeds up the approval process.
The NOTES field can contain, something as simple as:
"Please see attached obituary."
"Please view the death certificate of his mother, FAG ID xxxxxx."
"Edits as per headstone photo."
The acceptable sources are listed below under FAQ #3. If there is no source information or they are not acceptable the edits could be declined. Please DO NOT add the actual certificate or photo of BC Stats listing, as if it is incorrect, I waste time getting you to remove it. Please DO NOT add WW 1 attestation papers as the DOB is often incorrect, I have seen DOB off by 10 years, and it only confuses things.

In an effort, to edit the records I have added and not be flooded with edits, I ask for patience please. If I'm continually dealing with edits for info I already have, I have no time to add the info for my records.

PLEASE include a MEMORIAL NUMBER for any name when sending me a message. This makes it easier for me to respond.
Remember the purpose of FAG is NOT to duplicate what is on Ancestry.com, they may have errors too and then you just perpetuate that. DO your own research.
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Mountain View Cemetery (1968309) (Vancouver, BC) Projects:
- collaborating with FAG member The Torch (51137706) on plot and name verification. Most plots have been corrected, however still finding the odd one. We are down to the last 2,000 names or so as of Nov 13, 2023.
- I have identified around 500 disinterred or interment cancelled records. For how I am managing them please see THIS RECORD. I have added a photo on these records identifying them as a Historical Record. Hopefully, this will prevent future records being created, in this cemetery, from info on death certificate.
- merging duplicate records (approx. 2,050 as of Nov 13, 2023)
- adding missing records (approx. 7,540 as of Nov 13, 2023)
- submitting any corrections to the City of Vancouver MVC website (approx. 3,800 as of Nov 13, 2023)
The MVC official website is continually correcting their online listings from their paper records. The link can be found on the FAG home page for this cemetery. They update the website every Monday morning and I am trying my best to keep up with the edits. Information from any other website is NOT legitimate.
These projects are top priority for me, so I apologise if I don't get to your messages or edits promptly. Regarding any edits, that are auto approved, I reserve the right to correct any of these edits later.
Transfers for MVC will follow FAG guidelines. However, I have had many many requests that turned out that they were NOT who they were looking for. So please, ask me to update the record first, then ask for a transfer.
Virtual cemeteries are the way to "gather" your ancestors together.
________________________________
My primary interest is military graves. I do this to honour ALL the people that gave me the FREEDOM that I enjoy today! If you find my Poppy Cross flower you will know they served.
Working with an awesome FAG Member that submits all the paperwork for Veterans that need a headstone Wends-Last Post Fund Researcher (49110141)
I have taken several courses in Genealogy and have been researching Veterans and photographing local British Columbia, Canada cemeteries since 2000. I'm excited to be able to share my 7.5 GB of research on this wonderful site. It will take some time to edit my records, so please be patience. When you upload you are not able to include place of birth or death. I have ALL the information and will be editing them over the many months to come!

ALSO, I have about 10,000 plus photos to upload. Photos are uploaded first and record completed later so I can double check I have uploaded correct photo.

***NOTE - Jan thru Mar 2021 - I have claimed or received transfers of memorials in several cemeteries in the Vancouver, BC area. I would like to thank these members for their prior research! If you see another users name as the creator, please give me some time to add my info.

I look forward to seeing what contributions are sent in the future. If you are working on a family name that you need me to update, before I have a chance to get to it, please just send me a message letting me know the family name and I will try to get to it within a week. Thanks.

BABIES - Babies under 2 years of age are no longer available on the BC death registration website. Therefore, there is no way of knowing how old any baby is, unless the actual DOB and DOD are listed on a headstone or cemetery website. So please do not suggest year of birth for babies here in British Columbia, Canada unless you are a close family member. You may find info on another website about approximate DOB but I will not accept the edit. For instance if that website has age 0 and died Aug 1945 all that means is the baby is less that a year old and could be stillborn or born 364 days earlier in 1944.

My father was with the Royal Air Force in England during WW 2 and bought my first year membership in the Royal Canadian Legion in 1978. He traced our family tree as far back as he could go and taught me that "nothing lies like a document". My Grandfather fought in WW 1 and I have his medals.

Recipient of the West Vancouver Heritage Award in 2007 and from the Government of Canada, the Minister of Veterans Affairs Commendation in 2014.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

1) Why are there white crosses in your photos of headstones at Capilano View Cemetery?

In 1957, Joe Chamberlain, a South African Veteran, made and painted the first group of white crosses to mark Veterans' graves and these were placed on the morning of Remembrance Day. This practice of putting crosses on Veterans' graves, supplied by the Royal Canadian Legion West Vancouver Branch 60 continues today, however, they are placed approximately two weeks before November 11th. All Veterans' graves in Capilano View Cemetery are now marked with a cross at this time. The number of crosses needed has grown over the years. The cemetery staff and Legion members put up over 1,250 crosses in November 2020.

In 1960, the first Remembrance Ceremony at the cemetery took place on the morning of Remembrance Day at the Veterans' section in front of a flag pole. In 1963, this ceremony was changed to the afternoon of the Sunday before November 11th and continues to this day. The ceremony is now attended by the Branch Colour Party, Veterans, Branch Chaplain, firing party from the 6th Field Engineers, a trumpeter, pipers and the public.

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2) What is a Privy Council Marker?

From 1922 to 1953 the Commonwealth War Graves Commission produced Veteran grave markers for Veterans Affairs Canada's Funeral and Burial Program. The authority was contained in a series of Privy Council Orders. After 1953 Veterans Affairs Canada manufactured its own Veteran grave markers.
The thing to note about the Privy Council markers is that they look exactly like a war grave marker having the Maple Leaf logo on it. The only way to tell they are not a war grave is to study the date of death carefully against the service. ie WW I Veteran dies during the period of WW II.

C. Tremblay
Senior Officer
Canada Remembers Ottawa
Veterans Affairs Canada

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3) What sources do you use?

I use the following sources to do my research and I do not copy and paste information posted on these sites as they are dynamic and corrections and updates have occurred and will continue in the future. Remember that these paper files have been transcribed by people and we all make mistakes. So, please don't post INDEX photos of these items on my records.
- Official cemetery websites
- Library and Archives Canada
- Canadian Virtual War Memorial
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- British Columbia Vital Statistics ***note as of 2020 children under 2 years are no longer available online
- other Canadian Provinces Vital Statistics

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4) Why do my prefix abbreviations differ from FAG?

I follow the Library and Archives Canada Standard Military Abbreviations:
BDN - Bandsman
BQMS - Battery Quartermaster Sergeant
BSM - Battery Sergeant Major
BDR - Bombardier
BG - Brigadier General
CDT - Cadet
CPT - Captain
CHP - Chaplain
COL - Colonel
CSM - Company Sergeant Major
CON - Conductor
CPL - Corporal
DVR - Driver
GNR - Gunner
LCP - Lance Corporal
LSG - Lance Sergeant
LAC - Leading Aircraftman
LACW - Leading Aircraftwoman
LT - Lieutenant
LT CDR - Lieutenant Commander
LCL - Lieutenant Colonel
LGN - Lieutenant General
MAJ - Major
NS - Nursing Sister
ORS - O/R/Sergeant
PNR - Pioneer
PTE - Private (PVT is American)
QMS - Quartermaster Sergeant
RSM - Regimental Sergeant Major
RFN - Rifleman
SPR - Sapper
SGT - Sergeant
SM - Sergeant Major
SIG - Signaller
SS - Staff Sergeant
SSM - Staff Sergeant Major
TPR - Trooper
WO - Warrant Officer

"Find a Grave's mission is to help people from all over the world work together to find, record and present final disposition information as a virtual cemetery experience." - from Find a Grave website

EDITS - Please use the "Suggest Edits" button to send your RESEARCHED update or correction as per suggested by Find-A-Grave as a best practice (please see https://support.findagrave.com/s/article/Suggest-Edits-Overview) I will not spend time looking for something that you have already found. Therefore, you MUST include the source information you used in the new "NOTES" field, at the bottom of the edit form. For example, the death, marriage or birth registration NUMBER (not the link) and the province or state. Do NOT put it in the BIO field or send it via a message. Putting it in the NOTES field keeps the info with the suggested edit. This would be greatly appreciated and speeds up the approval process.
The NOTES field can contain, something as simple as:
"Please see attached obituary."
"Please view the death certificate of his mother, FAG ID xxxxxx."
"Edits as per headstone photo."
The acceptable sources are listed below under FAQ #3. If there is no source information or they are not acceptable the edits could be declined. Please DO NOT add the actual certificate or photo of BC Stats listing, as if it is incorrect, I waste time getting you to remove it. Please DO NOT add WW 1 attestation papers as the DOB is often incorrect, I have seen DOB off by 10 years, and it only confuses things.

In an effort, to edit the records I have added and not be flooded with edits, I ask for patience please. If I'm continually dealing with edits for info I already have, I have no time to add the info for my records.

PLEASE include a MEMORIAL NUMBER for any name when sending me a message. This makes it easier for me to respond.
Remember the purpose of FAG is NOT to duplicate what is on Ancestry.com, they may have errors too and then you just perpetuate that. DO your own research.
________________________________
Mountain View Cemetery (1968309) (Vancouver, BC) Projects:
- collaborating with FAG member The Torch (51137706) on plot and name verification. Most plots have been corrected, however still finding the odd one. We are down to the last 2,000 names or so as of Nov 13, 2023.
- I have identified around 500 disinterred or interment cancelled records. For how I am managing them please see THIS RECORD. I have added a photo on these records identifying them as a Historical Record. Hopefully, this will prevent future records being created, in this cemetery, from info on death certificate.
- merging duplicate records (approx. 2,050 as of Nov 13, 2023)
- adding missing records (approx. 7,540 as of Nov 13, 2023)
- submitting any corrections to the City of Vancouver MVC website (approx. 3,800 as of Nov 13, 2023)
The MVC official website is continually correcting their online listings from their paper records. The link can be found on the FAG home page for this cemetery. They update the website every Monday morning and I am trying my best to keep up with the edits. Information from any other website is NOT legitimate.
These projects are top priority for me, so I apologise if I don't get to your messages or edits promptly. Regarding any edits, that are auto approved, I reserve the right to correct any of these edits later.
Transfers for MVC will follow FAG guidelines. However, I have had many many requests that turned out that they were NOT who they were looking for. So please, ask me to update the record first, then ask for a transfer.
Virtual cemeteries are the way to "gather" your ancestors together.
________________________________
My primary interest is military graves. I do this to honour ALL the people that gave me the FREEDOM that I enjoy today! If you find my Poppy Cross flower you will know they served.
Working with an awesome FAG Member that submits all the paperwork for Veterans that need a headstone Wends-Last Post Fund Researcher (49110141)
I have taken several courses in Genealogy and have been researching Veterans and photographing local British Columbia, Canada cemeteries since 2000. I'm excited to be able to share my 7.5 GB of research on this wonderful site. It will take some time to edit my records, so please be patience. When you upload you are not able to include place of birth or death. I have ALL the information and will be editing them over the many months to come!

ALSO, I have about 10,000 plus photos to upload. Photos are uploaded first and record completed later so I can double check I have uploaded correct photo.

***NOTE - Jan thru Mar 2021 - I have claimed or received transfers of memorials in several cemeteries in the Vancouver, BC area. I would like to thank these members for their prior research! If you see another users name as the creator, please give me some time to add my info.

I look forward to seeing what contributions are sent in the future. If you are working on a family name that you need me to update, before I have a chance to get to it, please just send me a message letting me know the family name and I will try to get to it within a week. Thanks.

BABIES - Babies under 2 years of age are no longer available on the BC death registration website. Therefore, there is no way of knowing how old any baby is, unless the actual DOB and DOD are listed on a headstone or cemetery website. So please do not suggest year of birth for babies here in British Columbia, Canada unless you are a close family member. You may find info on another website about approximate DOB but I will not accept the edit. For instance if that website has age 0 and died Aug 1945 all that means is the baby is less that a year old and could be stillborn or born 364 days earlier in 1944.

My father was with the Royal Air Force in England during WW 2 and bought my first year membership in the Royal Canadian Legion in 1978. He traced our family tree as far back as he could go and taught me that "nothing lies like a document". My Grandfather fought in WW 1 and I have his medals.

Recipient of the West Vancouver Heritage Award in 2007 and from the Government of Canada, the Minister of Veterans Affairs Commendation in 2014.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

1) Why are there white crosses in your photos of headstones at Capilano View Cemetery?

In 1957, Joe Chamberlain, a South African Veteran, made and painted the first group of white crosses to mark Veterans' graves and these were placed on the morning of Remembrance Day. This practice of putting crosses on Veterans' graves, supplied by the Royal Canadian Legion West Vancouver Branch 60 continues today, however, they are placed approximately two weeks before November 11th. All Veterans' graves in Capilano View Cemetery are now marked with a cross at this time. The number of crosses needed has grown over the years. The cemetery staff and Legion members put up over 1,250 crosses in November 2020.

In 1960, the first Remembrance Ceremony at the cemetery took place on the morning of Remembrance Day at the Veterans' section in front of a flag pole. In 1963, this ceremony was changed to the afternoon of the Sunday before November 11th and continues to this day. The ceremony is now attended by the Branch Colour Party, Veterans, Branch Chaplain, firing party from the 6th Field Engineers, a trumpeter, pipers and the public.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2) What is a Privy Council Marker?

From 1922 to 1953 the Commonwealth War Graves Commission produced Veteran grave markers for Veterans Affairs Canada's Funeral and Burial Program. The authority was contained in a series of Privy Council Orders. After 1953 Veterans Affairs Canada manufactured its own Veteran grave markers.
The thing to note about the Privy Council markers is that they look exactly like a war grave marker having the Maple Leaf logo on it. The only way to tell they are not a war grave is to study the date of death carefully against the service. ie WW I Veteran dies during the period of WW II.

C. Tremblay
Senior Officer
Canada Remembers Ottawa
Veterans Affairs Canada

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3) What sources do you use?

I use the following sources to do my research and I do not copy and paste information posted on these sites as they are dynamic and corrections and updates have occurred and will continue in the future. Remember that these paper files have been transcribed by people and we all make mistakes. So, please don't post INDEX photos of these items on my records.
- Official cemetery websites
- Library and Archives Canada
- Canadian Virtual War Memorial
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- British Columbia Vital Statistics ***note as of 2020 children under 2 years are no longer available online
- other Canadian Provinces Vital Statistics

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4) Why do my prefix abbreviations differ from FAG?

I follow the Library and Archives Canada Standard Military Abbreviations:
BDN - Bandsman
BQMS - Battery Quartermaster Sergeant
BSM - Battery Sergeant Major
BDR - Bombardier
BG - Brigadier General
CDT - Cadet
CPT - Captain
CHP - Chaplain
COL - Colonel
CSM - Company Sergeant Major
CON - Conductor
CPL - Corporal
DVR - Driver
GNR - Gunner
LCP - Lance Corporal
LSG - Lance Sergeant
LAC - Leading Aircraftman
LACW - Leading Aircraftwoman
LT - Lieutenant
LT CDR - Lieutenant Commander
LCL - Lieutenant Colonel
LGN - Lieutenant General
MAJ - Major
NS - Nursing Sister
ORS - O/R/Sergeant
PNR - Pioneer
PTE - Private (PVT is American)
QMS - Quartermaster Sergeant
RSM - Regimental Sergeant Major
RFN - Rifleman
SPR - Sapper
SGT - Sergeant
SM - Sergeant Major
SIG - Signaller
SS - Staff Sergeant
SSM - Staff Sergeant Major
TPR - Trooper
WO - Warrant Officer