Ross Bay Cemetery IS located on Fairfield Road but maybe the office handling the records is on Cook Street. I used to live near it. Marla in Revelstoke, BC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennice Goudie" <dennice-goudie@home.com> To: <CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 8:00 PM Subject: [CAN-BC] ROSS BAY CEMETERY is located on Cook Road > ROSS BAY CEMETERY > 745 COOK RD > VICTORIA, BC > V9C 4G7 > (250)361-0628 > > Old Cemeteries Society > Box 50004, #15 - 1594 Fairfield Rd. > Victoria, BC V8S 1G1 > Canada > (250) 598-8870 > > http://www.oldcem.bc.ca/ > > http://www.islandnet.com/cgi-bin/ms2/rsd/search <<<< British Columbia > Cemetery Finding Aid > > > Could someone please advise me what the correct address for Ross Bay > Cemetery would be. > > > > I checked on Canada 411 and came up with the following address - > > > > Ross Bay Cemetery > > 1495 Fairfield Road > > Victoria, B. C. > > V8S 4J5 > > > > My letter has just been returned marked "Return to Sender - address > incomplete"!!! > > > > How do I contact them regarding a burial that took place in 1900? I am > trying to ascertain if a tombstone was erected on > > the following location - Blk H Plot W 23 in Ross Bay Cemetery. > > > > Regards, > > Eva > > > > > > > > > > ==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== > > Every two months or so, please repost your interests, > > telling us what you know and where you've looked > > and what you still need to find out. > > >

Marla and all: Yes, that's right, the City Park office that handles this kind of query is tucked away, inside Beacon Hill Park, reached from the Cook Street side. It's not part of the cemetery at all, but has records. There is also a tiny Cemetery Office, just inside Ross Bay Cemetery, off Fairfield Road, but there often isn't anyone there, as this is just used by the staff who keep up the grounds. I don't think they generally answer questions by telephone. But they have ALL the records in their original form in the little cemetery office... big old ledgers, held in a huge old fashioned safe, and if you visit the cemetery and can find the Supervisor or one of the other staff out cutting grass or watering or pruning, you can usually get someone to look up a burial and direct you to the spot. The burial registers and indexes in the Parks office are on microfilm, and they will take a telephone query and get back to you in a day with the answers. But I don't know if they can tell you the names of other persons in the same burial plot -- don't know if the Plot Books have been microfilmed. Claudia Claudia Cole Independent Research Agent 304 - 1960 Lee Avenue Victoria BC V8R 4W8 Canada Tel: 250 598-7859 ----- Original Message ----- From: "The Manson's" <manson@revelstoke.net> To: <CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 7:03 AM Subject: Re: [CAN-BC] ROSS BAY CEMETERY is located on Cook Road > Ross Bay Cemetery IS located on Fairfield Road but maybe the office handling > the records is on Cook Street. I used to live near it. > Marla in Revelstoke, BC > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dennice Goudie" <dennice-goudie@home.com> > To: <CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 8:00 PM > Subject: [CAN-BC] ROSS BAY CEMETERY is located on Cook Road > > > > ROSS BAY CEMETERY > > 745 COOK RD > > VICTORIA, BC > > V9C 4G7 > > (250)361-0628 > > > > Old Cemeteries Society > > Box 50004, #15 - 1594 Fairfield Rd. > > Victoria, BC V8S 1G1 > > Canada > > (250) 598-8870 > > > > http://www.oldcem.bc.ca/ > > > > http://www.islandnet.com/cgi-bin/ms2/rsd/search <<<< British Columbia > > Cemetery Finding Aid > > > > > Could someone please advise me what the correct address for Ross Bay > > Cemetery would be. > > > > > > I checked on Canada 411 and came up with the following address - > > > > > > Ross Bay Cemetery > > > 1495 Fairfield Road > > > Victoria, B. C. > > > V8S 4J5 > > > > > > My letter has just been returned marked "Return to Sender - address > > incomplete"!!! > > > > > > How do I contact them regarding a burial that took place in 1900? I am > > trying to ascertain if a tombstone was erected on > > > the following location - Blk H Plot W 23 in Ross Bay Cemetery. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Eva > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== > > > Every two months or so, please repost your interests, > > > telling us what you know and where you've looked > > > and what you still need to find out. > > > > > > > > > ==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== > Every two months or so, please repost your interests, > telling us what you know and where you've looked > and what you still need to find out. >

I was born and raised in Victoria have meandered through Ross Bay Cemetery long before I took up studying my family genealogy/history (many of my family members are buried there - check out the surname Goudie) - in my mind, Ross Bay Cemetery is found easiest by driving/walking along Dallas Road (by the seawall that is so often called "Ross Bay Cemetery Seawall" during the storms which send waves over the road keep looking across the road that is part of Ross Bay Cemetery) I did a check online with http://canada411.sympatico.ca/eng/business.html "Ross Bay Cemetery" and got two answers - one was already posted as getting a return to sender. I invite anyone to find information online that disputes what was posted between the two emails which are quoted in this reply. > Ross Bay Cemetery IS located on Fairfield Road but maybe the office handling > the records is on Cook Street. I used to live near it. > Marla in Revelstoke, BC > > ROSS BAY CEMETERY > > 745 COOK RD > > VICTORIA, BC > > V9C 4G7 > > (250)361-0628 > > > > Old Cemeteries Society > > Box 50004, #15 - 1594 Fairfield Rd. > > Victoria, BC V8S 1G1 > > Canada > > (250) 598-8870 > > > > http://www.oldcem.bc.ca/ > > > > http://www.islandnet.com/cgi-bin/ms2/rsd/search <<<< British Columbia > > Cemetery Finding Aid > > > > > Could someone please advise me what the correct address for Ross Bay > > Cemetery would be. > > > > > > I checked on Canada 411 and came up with the following address - > > > > > > Ross Bay Cemetery > > > 1495 Fairfield Road > > > Victoria, B. C. > > > V8S 4J5 > > > > > > My letter has just been returned marked "Return to Sender - address > > incomplete"!!! > > > > > > How do I contact them regarding a burial that took place in 1900? I am > > trying to ascertain if a tombstone was erected on > > > the following location - Blk H Plot W 23 in Ross Bay Cemetery. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Eva > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== > > > Every two months or so, please repost your interests, > > > telling us what you know and where you've looked > > > and what you still need to find out. > > > > > > > > > ==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== > Every two months or so, please repost your interests, > telling us what you know and where you've looked > and what you still need to find out. > >