HISTORY INDEX BIOGRAPHIES GRAND MASTERS BC PREMIERS MOUNTAIN VIEW CEMETERY, VANCOUVER VICTORIA'S CEMETERIES MASONIC INTERMENTS
		LOCATED between Acton and Ryan Streets on Cedar Hill Road, this is the oldest Jewish cemetery in western Canada. Written on the gatepost of Victoria's Jewish Cemetery is the Hebrew phrase, "Bays Ha Chayim" (House of the Living). Noteworthy are seven gravemarkers with the masonic square and compasses, and an eighth, that of freemason Morris Price, shot in his store in the gold rush town of Cayoosh, and the cemetery's first interment. Further information is available through the Old Cemeteries Society of Victoria. The following list of masonic interments may not be complete. Click on † for images. Gravemarkers with masonic symbols Berman, David † 1901/07/01 - 1998/01/20 Burns, Harry † 1874/02/09 - 1929/10/06 Friedlander, Elias † 1846-1927 Lancaster, Isador † d. 1924/10/17 aged 48 Levy, Lewis † d. 1926/01/18 aged 78 Lewis, Lewis † d. 1904/07/04 aged 77 Macara, Max Harvey † 1912 - 2001 No masonic symbols on gravemarkers Oppenheimer, David † Vancouver-Quadra Lodge No. 2, Victoria Price, Morris † Wolfe, Marcus † c.1845-1896/11/22 Ashlar lodge No. 3, Nanaimo Further information. Masonic notes: Robie L. Reid, Historical Notes and Biographical Sketches 1848 - 1935. "No masonic record" refers to the Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon only. Photos and list by Bro. Mark Anderson, Vancouver & Quadra Lodge No. 2, Victoria, BC. Gatepost photo : CE Leonoff, JHS (1975).

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