ALL SOULS AT MOUNTAIN VIEW CEMETERY
EVENTS
HONOURING OLD TRADITIONS | CREATING NEW ONES
“On All Saint’s Day in the autumn the cemeteries are little cities of golden light, a candle flickering the night through beside each grave.”
– Poland; from Funeral Customs the World Over, Habenstein & Lamers, Bulfin, 1960
ALL SOULS 2024
October 24 to November 1
EVENTS & ACTIVITIES
Thursday, October 17
20 Years of All Souls!
Retrospective slide show featuring pictures,
stories and things we learned along the way.
At Celebration Hall (north of the Mountain View Cemetery Office)
Thursday, October 24 – Friday, November 1
Memorial Box Lanterns Kits
Kits will be available beginning October 19 and can be found outside the Cemetery Office to take home and personalize.
Memorials can be placed on the shrines at Mountain View Cemetery beginning October 24.
Thursday, October 24
Opening Ceremony
6pm (Sundown)
Ceremonial fire and public shrine official opening.
Thursday, October 24 – Friday, November 1
Public Shrines
The public are invited to light candles, write messages, and leave personal memorials to remember their dead in an atmosphere of contemplative beauty.
Quiet incidental music may be encountered in the evenings and on weekend afternoons, throughout the memorial period.
Saturday, October 26
1pm to 4pm
Red Dress Memorial
Elder Kelly White and Strawberry Spirit Singers honour the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ peoples.
2pm to 4pm
Clay Memorials
Decorate and write messages on handmade unfired clay pieces, then, leave your creation outdoors to melt into the earth as an offering. With artist Jesse Orr.
All materials provided, no experience necessary.All Ages. Free. Drop in.
Sunday, October 27
1 to 4pm
Traditional Chinese Funeral Practices
Walter Quan shares traditional Chinese funeral practices. Come fold joss paper and make an offering.
2pm to 4pm
Mending/Tending Ecological Grief
Hands-on creative offerings. Led by artist Keely O’Brien.
All Ages. Free. Drop in.
November 1
7 – 9pm
Closing Ceremony
Our annual walk to each of the shrines to close the event.
Parking available. Wheelchair accessible
~ All events are outdoors. Please dress for the weather.~
All ages welcome. 
MUSIC AT MOUNTAIN VIEW
Live ambient music may be encountered on weekend afternoons and all evenings.
Musicians appearing during All Souls:
Johann McBee (hung drum), Naomi Steinburg (flute),
Calvin Cairns (fiddle), Johanna Hauser (clarinet), David Akselrod (dreamy electric guitar), Rene Hugo Sanchez (Peruvian Instrumentals), Strawberry Spirit Singers (Indigenous Women’s group), Kristina Zalite, Carmen Rosen, and Mik Bewsky (Golden Trio, Balkan music), Salalaul (Acapella Trio), Crystal Dorval (healing electronic music) Beverly Dobrinsky (Hurdy Gurdy), Quatro Plus 4 (Acapella octet) and the Savoir Faire musical group
For More Info
Check the
City of Vancouver’s Ongoing Events page