Monuments analysis

There were some fantastic things we discovered about the monuments that were the stained glass windows in the Christ Church in Victoria. We found out using various internet tools that most of the people for whom the glass was dedicated had something to do with Victoria and industry, or even the first world war. Here is a list of all the people and what information we could find out about them:

Lieutenant John Galt; he was a casualty of the first world war, he was part of the Lord Strathcona’s Horse regiment in the cavalry. Born May 1, 1891 and died December 9th 1915.

Evelyn Galt Martin; most likely married to John Galt.

Edgar Crowe Baker; born september 9th 1845 in Lambeth England, he became a very prominent figure in Parliament as an accountant, conveyancer and notary. He was also an accomplished figure in the Navy as well, he was also a founding member of the Victoria and Esquimalt Telephone Company which is still active today. He was also a Grand Master Mason of the Freemasons of Victoria. He died November 3rd 1920 at the age of 75.

Thomas Bradbury; not much to be found, this could be the Thomas Bradbury of Bradbury and sons silver working but I was unable to confirm due to lack of information.

William P. Sayward; a pioneer who had a huge impact on Victoria’s economy, he created a lumber yard in 1858. Since at that time he was the only lumber yard in Victoria he got busy very quickly. A few years later he bought a mill and married his first Wife Ann, but she died very soon after. Eventually William’s son Joeseph took over the mill and married a woman named Margaret and they had a daughter of the same name. The Saywards also have a small forest named after them as well as a district in Victoria.

William Curtis and Evelyn Ward; Curtis was a bank manager and they lived near the church, they built a large home near there in the late 1800’s. William was the first manager of the Victoria branch of the Canada Bank of Commerce.
Nation Family; the parents were members of the Union Club, a prestigious and wealthy club in Victoria. Their son Walter died in world war one and is buried in Belgium, he died at the age of 21.

David Russel Ker; son of the Honourable Robert and Jessie Ker, he became interested in milling at a young age then joined with a larger company and became a co-president of Brackman - Ker Feed and Milling company which later became a part of Maple Leaf Mills.

Robert James and Thomas Arnot Ker; are the brothers of the famous millwright David Russel Ker.

This is the map we made for the monuments. http://g.co/maps/rskqh

Bibliography:

Canadian Great War Project. “Lieutenant George Walter Nation.” Last Modified July 16th, 2010. http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/searches/soldierDetail.asp?ID=30558.

Canadian Great War Project. “Lieutenant John Galt.” Last Modified July 16th, 2010. http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/searches/soldierDetail.asp?Id=55740.

Freemasons of Victoria, The. “Biographies: Edgar Crowe Baker.” Accessed February 11, 2012. http://web.uvic.ca/vv/student/masons/bios.html#crow.

Humphreys, Danda. “Sayward's sawmill was Victoria's first.” FOCUS online, January 2011. Accessed February 11th, 2012. http://focusonline.ca/?q=node/152.

Silver Collection. “Thomas Bradbury & Sons LTD.” Accessed February 11, 2012. http://www.silvercollection.it/ENGLABRADBURY.html.

Victoria Heritage Foundation. “Rockland Neighbourhood History.” Accessed February 11, 2012. http://www.victoriaheritagefoundation.ca/rocklandhistory.html.

Chilliwack Museum and Archives. “Brackman - Ker Feed and Milling Company.” Accessed February 11, 2012. http://www.chilliwackmuseum.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view =article&id=53:brackman-ker-feed-and-milling-company&catid=32:feed-and-mills&Itemid=24.

Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon. “David R. Ker Called by Death.” Last modified October 8th, 2008. http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/history/victoria_cemeteries/ross_bay/ker_d.html.

Monuments

On friday my group partners and I went to the Christ Church in downtown Victoria, we had a look around the graveyard outside of it as well as the crypt inside the church itself. The graveyard had some very old monuments, some of which were even sinking into the ground. They were very hard to read the etchings had mostly faded away due to time, if we had brought some charcoal and paper we probably could have figured them out.
The church was very large, the ceiling was like 58 or 68 ft high and the almost every single window was stained glass. It all looked very regal and expensive. Aparently it costs around $3000 a day to keep the place running. We got permision to head down into the crypt to have look around and found it to be a very modern type thing. It was small and narrrow and the walls were covered in little rectangular holes. Most of which were already covered over with marble tablets depicting names and dates. In the middle of the room was a little altar where the pastor or whomever did the service spoke before they put the ashes of the deceased into the spaces and then covered them up.
The stained glass windows surrounding the main walls of the church were almost all dedicated to dead people and were donated to the church. They all showed 1 of the 12 apostles of Jesus as the entire picture and it was just writing saying who dedicated it.

Intro to me

Hello everyone;

My name is Jaymie Chudiak, I am a fourth year university student at UVic studying biology and anthropology. I am taking biology courses because I like learning how things work, the anthropology courses are because I am interested in learning more about the human animal. Why we evolved the way we did, what makes us unique from other animals, what makes us similar, and so on.

I chose the title Death Rewound for my blog because to me when anthropologists look at and examine remains its an awful lot like rewinding a movie. First we see how they were buried and what they were buried with and then when the actual body or ashes are examined more things about that persons life can be told.

Like Bones said; "Each death is a part of us". Every time we look at a grave we learn more about ourselves and our own histories.