Article: Old Canadian Cemeteries: Places of Memory.(Book review)

Old Canadian Cemeteries

Places of Memory

By Jane Irwin, with photographs by John de Visser. Richmond Hill, Ontario: Firefly Books, 2007. 320 pp. $75.00 hardcover. ISBN 1-55407-146-1. (www.fireflybooks.com)

The concept of a permanent resting place for our dead is relatively new. At one time, churchyard cemeteries were periodically emptied and their bones transferred to charnel houses to make room for more burials. In fact, as Jane Irwin tells us in her excellent book, Old Canadian Cemeteries, it was not until the 1600s that Europeans in India established the first permanent burial grounds. Canadian cemeteries, she goes on to say, inspired by the ...

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