Project Name: Mountain View Cemetery - Masonic Area RedevelopmentI, Vancouver, BC
(with Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg Landscape Architects & Birmingham and Wood Architects)

Client: City of Vancouver

Project Description:

The Masonic Area is one of twelve distinct areas within Mountain View Cemetery, and the first one to undergo redevelopment. Once redeveloped, the Masonic Neighbourhood will bring a broad range of interment and memorialization options to those that wish to be buried at the cemetery. Over 2500 places for interring cremated remains will be available to meet the needs for celebration, memory and contemplation within the community. A new customer service hall, operations yard and celebration hall (Birmingham and Wood Architects) are being developed coincident with the first phase of the Masonic Area redevelopment.

This multi-phase project is the largest cemetery redevelopment project currently being undertaken in North America.

In 2009, LEES + Associates and Philipps Farevaag Smallenbery garnered a Regional Award of Merit from the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) for their work on the Masonic Area Redevelopment.

A Night For All Souls, 2006 at Mountain View Cemetery Mento Mori:
The following link and volumes include stories of interesting people buried in the cemetery the new infant area dedication as well as a wrap up of the All Souls event.
(PDF) Newsletter of Mountain View Cemetery