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Old Canadian Cemeteries Places of Memory Jane Irwin John Visser RCA 9781554071463 Books

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I developed an interest in cemetaries over 50 years ago while in the army.We were taking Driver Training ad other training which meant we were off in the countryside.Naturally,when mealtimes arrived,instead of returning to base,a meal truck would arrive to serve noon meals.Often the location chosen would be a country church which had a fairly large parking area,being a weekday,it would be empty,and it almost always had a cemetary beside it.The noon break would be an hour,and once the meal was completed,I would stroll in the cemetary.It was fascinating to read the tombstones which gave much interesting information about the community and the people who lived there,and had been laid to rest.It brought home the struggles the families went through just to survive things like several in a family dying in a few days with epidemics,young wives dying in childbirth,miners dying in cave-ins,fishermen "lost at sea",graves of those "killed in action" in various wars,graves of Firemen,famous people,large percentages of children and babies dying from sickness,and even those hardy or fortunate people who actually survived to ripe old ages of 90 and more.Along ith all that it was very interesting to see the symbols and various forms the grave markers took and the materials used.There were many that were simple wood markers,long since fallen into decay as well as elaborate monuments and crypts.Sometimes we would come across abandoned sites where the town or village had long since vanished and the cemetery had fallen into disrepair.We would often come across an assemblage of "stones" that families had rescued from cemeteries that had been overgrown and they had collected the markers together to create a rememberence.I had even come across a small church where the cemetery had become too difficult for the congregation to maintain;and they collected up the stones and created a sidewalk with them.
If you notice,this book's original price when published in 2007 was $75.It is a large book 12 X 10 1/2 X 1 1/2 inches,and 320 pages.It has hundreds of excellent photographs and well researched text covering just about every imaginable thing there is to know about cemeteries.It covers the planning,history,the types of monuments,grave markers,crypts,and the large number of symbols,types of materials used for markers;in other words it answers all kinds of questions about what one will find while simply strolling or studying graveyards.It has a large Bibliography listing all kinds of books and other publications about cemeteries.


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Old Canadian Cemeteries Places of Memory Jane Irwin John Visser RCA 9781554071463 Books Reviews

This one has it all - over 250 color photos (a must for cemetery armchair explorers), as well as covering all types of cemeteries. It has information on all types of cemeteries - rural, urban, regional styles etc. It also points out diffences in cemeteries of various religious and ethnic groups. It is very large and has a hefty price tag but is worth the money.
I developed an interest in cemetaries over 50 years ago while in the army.We were taking Driver Training ad other training which meant we were off in the countryside.Naturally,when mealtimes arrived,instead of returning to base,a meal truck would arrive to serve noon meals.Often the location chosen would be a country church which had a fairly large parking area,being a weekday,it would be empty,and it almost always had a cemetary beside it.The noon break would be an hour,and once the meal was completed,I would stroll in the cemetary.It was fascinating to read the tombstones which gave much interesting information about the community and the people who lived there,and had been laid to rest.It brought home the struggles the families went through just to survive things like several in a family dying in a few days with epidemics,young wives dying in childbirth,miners dying in cave-ins,fishermen "lost at sea",graves of those "killed in action" in various wars,graves of Firemen,famous people,large percentages of children and babies dying from sickness,and even those hardy or fortunate people who actually survived to ripe old ages of 90 and more.Along ith all that it was very interesting to see the symbols and various forms the grave markers took and the materials used.There were many that were simple wood markers,long since fallen into decay as well as elaborate monuments and crypts.Sometimes we would come across abandoned sites where the town or village had long since vanished and the cemetery had fallen into disrepair.We would often come across an assemblage of "stones" that families had rescued from cemeteries that had been overgrown and they had collected the markers together to create a rememberence.I had even come across a small church where the cemetery had become too difficult for the congregation to maintain;and they collected up the stones and created a sidewalk with them.
If you notice,this book's original price when published in 2007 was $75.It is a large book 12 X 10 1/2 X 1 1/2 inches,and 320 pages.It has hundreds of excellent photographs and well researched text covering just about every imaginable thing there is to know about cemeteries.It covers the planning,history,the types of monuments,grave markers,crypts,and the large number of symbols,types of materials used for markers;in other words it answers all kinds of questions about what one will find while simply strolling or studying graveyards.It has a large Bibliography listing all kinds of books and other publications about cemeteries.