It's time to share some news from St. Luke's Cemetery. A number of projects have been completed over the last few months, while some others are planned. Information about some of the completed projects is included below.

Upcoming plans include repairs to the stone walls in the cemetery and the installation of a few more row markers. We hope that the work to the repair the walls will take place over the summer or in the fall.

By this time of year, the Christmas arrangements still on the graves are looking out of place.

If you placed an arrangement on a family grave before Christmas, could you please recover it before the middle of March. After the middle of March, the Cemetery Committee will remove any seasonal arrangements remaining on the graves.

Spring is a lovely time to visit the cemetery for a physically-distanced walk. The snowdrops on the hillside are almost finished but the daffodils and aubrieta are starting to bloom.

Two of the three Last Post Markers we applied for were installed on December 1st. The markers were for Jack Halton and Constance Thompson.

Thanks to Gillian Klassen for all her work applying for these markers. 

The Unmarked Grave Program of the Last Post Fund of Veterans Affairs provides military markers for unmarked veterans’ graves. Cemeteries and individuals can apply to this fund for a marker if a veteran’s grave is unmarked.

Great news! The shadow box was installed on December 5th. Thank you to Bruce and Robert Hallsor, Gary and David Lunn, and Peter Machin (our groundskeeper) for their work installing the shadow box. They did a great job!

A map and other information will be added this year.

Open the link below to read about the building and installation of the shadow box, and to see more pictures.

In 2015, Laura Lang of Esquimalt was sorting through her sister’s possessions after her death when she found an old wooden box. It appeared to be a writing box, lined with purple velvet. It included a number of old photographs and some hidden compartments.

Read the fascinating story of this "Mystery Writing Box" and its connections to people buried in St. Luke's Cemetery.

You are invited to drop in any time from 9:00 am to 11:30 am on Saturday, May 15th, June 19th, and/or July 24th to take part in Community Cleanup Mornings at St. Luke's Cemetery.

As we found out last year, St. Luke's Cemetery is a great place to physically distance and clean some graves at the same time.  

Cemetery Committee members will be available to help descendants find family graves. 

Come and see what a hidden gem this cemetery is. 

This e-mail list was compiled from contact information St. Luke’s Cemetery Committee has regarding descendants, family members, and friends of people buried in St. Luke’s Cemetery. While we know that many of you don't live in the Greater Victoria area, please feel free to pass along this e-mail to relatives who live in the area.

The e-mail list is used to send out newsletters and information about special events regarding the cemetery several times a year. If you do not wish to be on this list to receive these occasional updates, please reply to this e-mail and let me know and I will take you off the list.

We also encourage you to visit the Cemetery pages of St. Luke's website. Click on the Read More button below. The Cemetery section at the website includes links to a database of veterans buried in St. Luke's Cemetery, stories of the people resting in the cemetery, and a database with names and plot locations. 

Regards
Barb Prescott
on behalf of the Cemetery Committee
of St. Luke Cedar Hill Anglican Church