Canadian Cemetery History Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Canadian Cemetery History

"[T]he dead do not simply vanish when life is extinguished; although their final physical disposition is managed by specialists, the dead must also be accounted for in the imagination." - Gary Laderman, The Sacred Remains. https://t.co/srlpifsZCe

Canadian Cemetery History

@stillots1 @DrSCutrara @Graveyard_arch Ahhh yes, good one, Shirley. I remember reading about this in John Ralston Saul's bio of Baldwin and Lafontaine.

Canadian Cemetery History

"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together." - Charles Dickens https://t.co/XqV7cdPGOb

Canadian Cemetery History

"He was conscious of, but could not apprehend, their wayward and flickering existence. His own identity was fading out into a grey impalpable world: the solid world itself which these dead had one time reared and lived in was dissolving and dwindling." - James Joyce, The Dead https://t.co/72TK4LFmPa

Canadian Cemetery History

@OTDCanMilHis No Man's Land, by Eric Leed. Such an interesting and in many ways eerie read.

Canadian Cemetery History

@LizWelsh65 @Graveyard_arch A flower bud (not a fish, you can see a second, more weathered one on the right too) and various flowers; two are lilies by the looks of it, the other difficult to say.