Thanks for the fascinating history of our City,I have lived here for years and had no idea about this,only rumors. I hope people will have a bit more respect for when they walk through this area because no matter what the deceased where once living and we just don’t know what the circumstances of why they got interned there,so let’s give them the respect due,not everyone there was a bad person. Again thanks for sharing this regards Scott.

thanks for such interesting info Eve. this forgotten history is fascinating barry Markle

Hi Eve,

Research on the Chinese burial removals at New West Secondary by archaeologists indicated that many of the historical removals left smaller skeletal elements of the bones and feet, and the like.
I would suspect that any such removals in BC would have left similar bones.
Apparently, if the individual had not contributed to the exhumation and transport fund back to China, they were left in the ground.
The roadway and grassy slope down to the seawall may still contain human remains from early Vancouver’s multicultural population, as well as the ~ 200 (estimated) unmarked graves back in the forest.

Stanley Park is owned by the Federal gov’t and leases it to the city. Similarly, the beach to the high water mark is Port Authority land. Just to be clear.

Very interesting, thanks. Hoping Eve looks into North Shore history too. There was a landfill in the city of West Vancouver at one time. So much history here too.

Yes! I’ve experienced seeing Ghosts. It was about 1989 I would see an older woman and gentleman appear out of no where ask a question then disappear. Or they walk by you and smiling.

Eve, How about the area of “Forest Grove” on Burnaby Mountain? I heard this use to be called Vancouver Cemetery in the early 1960’s, prisoners from Oakalla and the B.C. Pen, were buried there and only some bodies were exhumed.

When I was young I was a Navy League Wrennet on Deadman’s Island. no one would take out the garbage for fear of the ghosts that we had heard about! Early 60s