Mountain View Cemetery: final resting place for Titanic survivors, politicians and other notable people

• There are nearly 150,000 people buried at the cityowned Mountain View Cemetery, the only one in Vancouver. The 106- acre graveyard is west of Fraser Street between 31st and 43rd avenues. • The first burial took place in February 1887; Caradoc Evans was only 10 months old. • Titanic survivor Robertha Josephine Marshall is buried here. She was 12 and travelling with her mother, Elizabeth Watt, to meet her father in Portland, Ore., when the ship struck the iceberg. Both mother and daughter survived in Lifeboat 9. • Aldyen Irene Hamber, who died at the age of 103, also had a Titanic connection. While visiting London with her parents, she met Eric Hamber, who later became lieutenant- governor of British Columbia. They decided to marry in London, which upset her father because it meant he had to cancel passage on Titanic’s maiden voyage. • James F. Garden, who died in 1914, is among the 12 Vancouver mayors buried at Mountain View. He won election in 1898 in the middle of the Klondike Gold Rush. As mayor, he personally led a force that stopped lumber baron Thomas Ludgate from logging Deadman’s Island in Stanley Park. • Thomas Neelands swept into Vancouver’s mayoralty in a wave of discontent over saloons and rampant gambling. Two days after his election in 1902, the chief of police announced there would be no gambling except in clubs and no saloons would be open on Sundays. • Yip Sang, one of Vancouver’s first prominent ChineseCanadian businessmen and one of its most prolific citizens, was buried here in 1927. He was a social reformer and activist. He helped found the Chinese Benevolent Association of Vancouver and the Chinese Board of Trade. His Wing Sang company headquarters, one of the city’s oldest buildings, now houses condo king Bob Rennie’s collection of contemporary art. Yip had four wives and 23 children. By 1966, his family had grown to 660 members. • Sara Anne McLagan, the first female publisher of a daily newspaper in Canada, was buried here in 1924. Her grave is unmarked. Only her daughter’s headstone is on the family plot. • Fanny Dalrymple Redmond was buried here in 1932. She was called the city’s Florence Nightingale and helped establish Vancouver’s first hospital in 1888. Frances Street is named in her honour. • Hanako Sato and her husband, Tsutae, are also buried at Mountain View. She came from Japan to teach at the Japanese Language School where Tsutae was the principal. They were among the nearly 23,000 Japanese- Canadians who were sent to internment camps during the Second World War. They returned to Vancouver in 1952 when the school was reopened. • Among other notables buried at Mountain View are legendary lifeguard Joe Fortes and sprinter Harry Jerome.