PUBLICATIONS ABOUT OUR FIRM

• Komagata Maru Memorial:
• January 27, 2011 – Plans for new memorial unveiled at Coal Harbour Community Centre on Thursday (PDF) “Ship Memorial Takes Shape” Metro Vancouver


• 'A Walk to Remember' at the Derek Doubleday Arboretum:
• November 12, 2011 – A new memorial in Langley will commemorate Canadians who fell in Afghanistan "Langley Youth for the Fallen” - Langley Today
  
  
• November 3, 2011 – A memorial grove will commemorate every Canadian who has fallen in Afghanistan  "Trees to honour Canada's Fallen” - The Province


• Green Burial:
  • November 2011, Municipal World, “Green Burial Gaining Ground in Canada” by Senior Associate Catriona Hearn
    
    
• Fall 2011 – Going Green - Making a Difference, by ELAC Associate Heidi Redman (PDF) “Green Burial: From Concept to Reality” CCABC Fall Dispatch
  
  
• This is quite a good video on green burial with some compelling factoids:
View Video on Youtube
• Jul/Aug, 2011 –How natural burials are "greening" funerals - with quote from Erik Lees
  (PDF) “Eco-friendly cemeteries” Canadian Geographic
  
  
• Mar 13, 2011 – Green Burial in North Carolina
  (PDF) “Dust to dust: a natural cemetery gets back to basics” The State


• Jan 26, 2007 - The Toronto Star
  The Green Goodbye
  
  
• August 17, 2002 - Woodlands Burial
  (PDF) “Going Wild”  The Economist
  
  
• Wood Buffalo Cemeteries:
  

• January 18, 2011 - New Cemetery Site Proposed
  (PDF) “New gravesite to operate for next 30 years” Fort McMurray Today
  
  
• August 5, 2010 - Fort McMurray Cemetery Land Needs
  (PDF) “Cemeteries full, new site needed within four years” Fort McMurray Today
  

• Skeena Terrace Commemoration Park:
  • May 23, 2009 - Dedication Ceremony
    (PDF) "Arson victims commemorated at new Vancouver park" The Vancouver Sun

• Air India Memorial:
  
• July 28, 2007- Air India Memorial Opening
  
Listen to Erik Lees' interview with Kevin Sylvester, Courtesy of the CBC
Air India Memorial visitor review, link to blog
(PDF) "Wall of Honours Victims" The Globe and Mail
(PDF) "Wall of Remembrance" The Vancouver Sun


• November 20, 2006 - "Air India Memorial Concept Revealed" CBC Blog
  (PDF) Air India Memorial concept revealed
  
  
  
• Mountain View Cemetery:
  • February 10, 2011 – Mountain View Cemetery may offer unused grave sites to the highest bidders - (PDF) “Dying to get in: Vancouver cemetery may seek bids for burial spots” – Vancouver Sun
  
  
  • July 28, 2010 – Memoriam section: Infant Graves at Mountain View Cemetery:"In Loving Memory" – The Province
    
    
  • July 8, 2010 – Take a look at the exciting revitalization taking place at Mountain View Cemetery "Making Cemeteries Relevant, Part 5” – The Daily Undertaker
    
    
  • February5, 2010 – At Mountain View Cemetery people are choosing "green" burials "Back to Nature" – Vancouver Courier
    
    
  • Winter 2009 – Rebirth of a Cemetery, by Erik Lees "From Ashes to Gardens: The Rebirth of a Cemetery" – Journal of Landscape Architecture, Volume 7, Issue 2
    
  
  
  • October 2009 – Three new buildings at Vancouver's cemetery "Respite and Ritual" – Canadian Architect
  
  
  • October 2008 – Mountain View unveils new columbaria (PDF) "Stairway to Heaven" – Vancouver Magazine
    
    
  • Winter 2008 - A View of the Future of Cremation Gardens, by Andrew Robertson (PDF) "Something is happening in one of BC's oldest cemeteries" - The Cremationist
  
  
  • March 1, 2008 - Memorial to lost babies a poignant new part of historic cemetery(PDF) "A Link to the past, and dear departed" - Vancouver Sun
    
    
  • November 15, 2006 - Infant Graves Implementation
    (PDF) Memorialization of unmarked infant graves - "A Grief Delayed" - Vancouver Courier
    
    
  • October 2, 2006 - Memorialization of Unmarked Infant Graves
    (PDF) "Stones Will Symbolize Buried Babies" - Globe and Mail
    
  • (PDF) "Ashes to Ashes " - Vancouver Courier
    
    
    
  • Royal Oak Burial Park - "Woodlands" Green Burial Area
  • Decemeber 22, 2011 – with quotes from Stephen Olson, Joe Sehee and Erik Lees
    (PDF) "Dust to Dust: the case for a green burial" – The Globe and Mail
    
    
  • January 15, 2009 – Canadian cemetery offers environmentally friendly burial
    (PDF) "A green way to dispose of the dead " – Vancouver Sun
  
  
  
  • December 1, 2008 – Royal Oak Burial Park opens green burial area
    (PDF) "Old-fashioned burials offered as green alternative" – Vancouver Sun
  
  
  
  • November 28, 2008 – Green Burial at Royal Oak Burial Park in Saanich
    (PDF) "Green burial reflects nature" – Victoria Times Colonist
  
  
  
  • February 18, 2008 – Green Burial is coming to Royal Oak Burial Park
    (PDF) "Going most gently into the night" – Maclean’s
  
  
  
  • Woodlands Memorial Garden:
    
    
    
    • June 22, 2007 - Woodland's dedication ceremony
      Listen to interview with former Woodland's patients courtesy of Vancouver By Design
      
      
    • October 16, 2006 - Memorialization at a former institution's cemetery site.
      (PDF) “Restoring Identities for the Once Invisible” Globe and Mail
      
      
    • October 12, 2006 - Memorialization at a former institution's cemetery site.
      (PDF) “Woodlands Memorial Taking Shape” Burnaby News Leader
      
      
    • July 18, 2005 - Memorialization at a former institution's cemetery site.
      (PDF) “Giving Dignity to the Dead”  Globe and Mail
      
      
    • August 24, 2005 - Memorialization at a former institution's cemetery site.
      (PDF) “Landscaper specializes in monumental projects”  Vancouver Courier
      
      
    • August 5, 2002 - Private Loss, Public Memory and the Passionate Art of Erik Lees (PDF) “Our Honoured Dead ” Vancouver Courier
      
• Maple Ridge Cemetery:
  
• March 1, 2008 - Maple Ridge Cemetery Master Plan
  (PDF) “Consultant also recommends cemetery expansion" - The Maple Ridge News



• Lethbridge Land Needs:
  
• December 12, 2006 - Shortage of Cemetery Space
  (PDF) “The Plot Thickens” The Herald
  
  
  
• Powell River & Texada Cemeteries:
  
• March 31, 2010 - A new plan for the area's cemeteries
  (PDF) “Burial Options Expand” The Powell River Peak
  
  
• Cemetery Mapping Publications:
  
• June/July, 2011 - Washington Cemetery, Cremation & Funeral Association (WCCFA) Newsletter (PDF) Integrating GIS Mapping at Your Cemetery - WCCFA Insider by ELAC Associate Damian Bradley
  
  
• November 17, 2010 - Ontario Association of Cemetery & Funeral Professionals (OACFP) Newsletter (PDF) Cemetery Mapping: What can GIS do for you? by ELAC Associate Damian Bradley
  
  
  

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OTHER PUBLICATIONS

• January 11, 2011 –Erik Lees interviewed on blog Making Cemeteries Relevant, Part 5: LEES + Associates postedby Patrick McNally


• December, 2010 – Excellent article about cemeteries and parks in Landscape Architecture magazine (PDF) Cemeteries Alive: Graveyards are resurging as green spaces for the public by Peter Harnik and Aric Merolli
  
• August 5, 2010 - Cemeteries as laboratories for biodiversity - Audobonmagazine.org
  
• December, 2007 – The following link includes an article submitted by Dan Bellan to MB News. Dan Bellan, commemoration artist, carved the inscriptions on the Air India Memorial.
  (PDF) Are we there yet? Cemeteries of the former Yugoslavia
  
  
• August, 2007 - Globeandmail.com
  (PDF) 'Til death do us part'


• April 14, 2006 - Victoria Times Colonist
  (PDF) Skill-testing question required before buying burial plot
  
  
• March 17, 2006 - Globeandmail.com
  (PDF) A dream lies buried here
  
  
• March 17, 2006 - (PDF) “Cemeteries Big Draw for Condos” Financial Post
  
  
• February, 2004 - (PDF) “Going Green” Network
  
  
• 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
  
  
• August 5, 2004 - TheVancouverCourier.com
  Ashes to Ashes
  
  
• March 01, 2002 - Vancouver Sun
  (PDF) Peaceful places - The serenity and reverential tone of a cemetery garden can be an inspiration to all gardeners
  

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ELAC CEMETERY SYMPOSIA

LEES+Associates’ commitment to advancing sustainable cemetery design and management practices in Canada extends to our hosting of symposia focusing on contemporary cemetery issues. ELAC has hosted two symposia to date.

• 2008 - Art & Meaning in the Modern Cemetery, ELAC 10th Anniversary Symposium – On October 16th 2008, LEES+ Associates hosted a day-long symposium on art, performance and public engagement in the modern cemetery. (PDF) Art and Meaning in the Modern Cemetery - Summary Proceedings
  
  
• 2006 - The Role of Green Burials, Sustainable Cemeteries Symposium Organized and hosted by LEES + Associates this symposium was initiated to provide an opportunity for those associated with public cemeteries, including cultural and environmental advocates, to take a detailed look at all the issues relating to sustainability, as well as to share ideas, information and experiences. (PDF) The Role of Green Burials – Summary Proceedings
  

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