Below are additional bits of interesting information that I found in association to our monument analysis.
City of Victoria Heritage Advisory Committee Minutes:
- Provides an interesting example of how to look at maintaining cemeteries and the questions that arise
The following link is of the City of Victoria Heritage Advisory Committee Minutes from April 13, 2004. In these minutes, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outlined a proposal for an upgrading and further maintenance of the War Graves in the Ross Bay Cemetery. This report is primarily interesting as it also provides the history of the Commonwealth War Graves Committee, but also provides comments the Victoria Heritage Advisory Commission asked in the meeting pertaining to altering the War Graves as well as provides answers some of the committee had in response to these questions. One such question was “How do you respond to family members if there is an error on the headstones” and another was “What might be the public reaction.” These two question seem fitting as we have discussed how changes in cemeteries and memorials can affect our anthropological research in investigating how people treated their dead and what it means to alter these sites. http://www.victoria.ca/cityhall/minutes_boards/min040413_heritage.pdf
Additional Material on the Monuments:
1. The following link provides additional information on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, including summaries of the organization and information on the monuments of remembrance found both at the Ross Bay Cemetery and other Commonwealth War Grave memorial locations. This link will provide additional information on the Cross of Sacrifice and the four-sided granite Naval Memorial.
2. The following link provides further readings on Monuments of the First and Second World Wars. There is a brief section on Monuments in Canada, focusing on the Navel Memorial. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/monuments-of-the-first-and-second-world-wars
3. This following link provides information on the Cross of Sacrifice.
4. The following link is from the Veterans Affairs Canada webpage and provides a short write-up of the Ross Bay’s war memorial locations.
Maps of the Ross Bay Cemetery:
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