Located just West of Fraser between 31st and 43rd, Mountain View Cemetery is Vancouver’s only cemetery and has been in operation since 1887.
The purpose of our visit was to try to catch the feeling of the graveyard on film. For me that mostly meant a grainy, gritty, B&W look.
The cemetery with it’s continuing life cycle of trees and flowers and the gradually wearing headstones was an interesting juxtaposition between life and death – I guess that’s why artists find graveyards so interesting. Some of the headstones told tales of love with couples lying together, others very sad stories of little ones passing. There were plots for three or four generations of people. So much history.
So many stories.
