Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

• That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
• We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
• On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Village Bay (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Village Bay. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Cemeteries Near Village Bay ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Village Bay.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Village Bay covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Village Bay, with the one closest to Village Bay listed first.

• Galiano Island Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Galiano Island Cemetery
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Galiano Island Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
  • The Galiano Island Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Galiano Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2491107 <2>
• Pender Island Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pender Island Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2523407 <2>
• Holy Trinity Anglican Church Cemetery
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holy Trinity Anglican Church Cemetery
  • The Holy Trinity Anglican Church Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Holy Trinity Anglican Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #639356 <2>
• Boundary Bay Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Boundary Bay Cemetery
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Boundary Bay Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Tsawwassen.
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2146965 <2>
• St. John the Baptist Church Cemetery
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. John the Baptist Church Cemetery
  • The St. John the Baptist Church Cemetery has also been known as:
  • St. John The Baptist Anglican Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2272045 <2>
• St. Stephen's Anglican Church Cemetery
  (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Stephen's Anglican Church Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2363954 <2>
• St. Mary's Anglican Cemetery
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Mary's Anglican Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2330690 <2>
• Mountain View Cemetery
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mountain View Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #639366 <2>
• Woodlawn Cemetery
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Woodlawn Cemetery
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Woodlawn Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
• Royal Oak Burial Park
  (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Royal Oak Burial Park
  • The Royal Oak Burial Park has also been known as:
  • Royal Oak Burial Park Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #639349 <2>
• Ladysmith Cemetery
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ladysmith Cemetery
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Ladysmith Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Ladysmith.
  • The Ladysmith Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Ladysmith Municipal Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2407121 <2>
• Beth Tikvah Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beth Tikvah Cemetery
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Beth Tikvah Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<4> to the north of Surrey.
  • The Beth Tikvah Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Beth Tikvah Jewish Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2443242 <2>
• Continue List   (23 more) ...
  • Sunnyside Lawn Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunnyside Lawn Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sunnyside Lawn Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<4> to the north of Surrey.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2259708 <2>
  • Victory Memorial Park
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Victory Memorial Park
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Victory Memorial Park is a very large cemetery that is located 5 miles [8 km]<4> to the north of Surrey.
    • The Victory Memorial Park has also been known as:
    • Veterans Memorial Park
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2226367 <2>
  • Olga - Doe Bay Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Olga - Doe Bay Cemetery

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Village Bay. See our List of 1890's Communities around Village Bay.

Newspapers Published in Village Bay ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Village Bay.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Village Bay, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Village Bay.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Village Bay:

• Websites specific to British Columbia
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search

• Cemetery Information and Directories for British Columbia
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of British Columbia
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of British Columbia
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of British Columbia
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of British Columbia

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Village Bay. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Province of British Columbia: https://www.gov.bc.ca/