The story of Beechwood Cemetery is the story of Canada, in all its diversity of colour, religion and culture.
“Whenever I enter a cemetery,” former governor general Michaëlle Jean once said, “I feel as though I am opening the door to a library. Every tombstone is a book; every person at rest, a story.”
From its French and English roots, Beechwood’s story spans the Scots and Irish with their Celtic crosses to influxes of Chinese, Vietnamese, Portuguese and East European migrations and more recent memorials bearing Arabic and other scripts.
Beechwood tells 82,000 stories spanning over 144 years and 160 acres. More than …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
