Vancouver Centennial Plaque #36 – Brockton Graveyard
Address: Brockton Point Lighthouse, Stanley Park
Status: Last seen on December 2009 StreetView, gone by September 2020
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36. BROCKTON GRAVEYARD
Pioneer settlers were buried near Brockton Point. Homemade coffins, graves scattered among the trees, and headboards fashioned from rough lumber reflected the informality of pioneer burial practices. By 1888 the little cemetery had fallen into disuse.
Credit: Vancouver Centennial Commission, Historic Plaque Program – list and documentation plaques 1-49 (June 18, 1986). Courtesy of Vancouver Archives
Photo credit: Vancouver Archives (AM54-S4- LGN 661)
