On Saturday evening, October 26, there was a special event at Mountain View Cemetery, “All Souls”, the 9th Annual Night for Honouring the Dead. Shortly after 6:00 pm, there was an aboriginal chant, then the lighting of a Swedish fire, an interesting log that burns from the inside.

In the Celebration Hall they were serving tea and had materials for making memorial candles. I brought photocopies of photos with me and we used them to decorate the candle holders.

Then we walked over to the four side by side plots where the majority of my ancestors are buried, in the section called OLD. All the above in the photo are there, except for Anne and Will. In addition, two of the Evans children were buried as infants in 1899 and 1901. My biological mother Elizabeth (Evans) Fleming (1925-2013) was buried there this past April, and her sister Barbara Evans (1927-2005) had her ashes interred at the same time.

My great-aunt Anne (1898-1999) was buried with her husband Bill Metcalfe in ABRAY. Coincidentally, they are in the same row, about 10 metres from where my adoptive mother Maureen (Evans) Sweeney (1933-2010) is buried with her mother Laura (MacDonald) Evans.