Chinese Cemetery

CHINESE CEMETERY in OAK BAY is one of a very few CHINESE cemeteries established in Canada between the 1880s and the 1920s. Located at the end of Harling Pt overlooking the mouth of Gonzales Bay, it contains over 1,000 individual graves and 13 communal graves. It was established in 1903 by VICTORIA's Chinese community, which employed the ancient principles of feng shui to determine a propitious site. The last individual burials at the site occurred in 1950, though the bones of 849 Chinese...

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