My experience at Ross Bay Cemetery

A team project I had to realize for my archaeology of death class, got me really exited, because it gave me a reason to visit Ross Bay Cemetery. My excitement was due to two particular things I had heard about the place, first it is said to be a beautiful example of Victorian graveyard, and it is suppose to be haunted by at least four different apparitions.

Some people feel uneasy when they enter a cemetery, because it is considered a sacred place, but I have never really felt that way. In my opinion, being cemetery is not really different from walking in a park. Unsurprisingly, I have visited many beautiful cemeteries.

Unfortunately, the visit at Ross Bay cemetery had to be cut very short because my teammates and I were surprised the cold temperature. None of the team members were prepared to stay a while in the cold, and it was impossible to reschedule, because of that we did not really take the time to choose the monuments we wanted to look at. We randomly picked graves that looked like they belonged to either Chinese or Japanese individuals.

If our team had to go back at Ross Bay Cemetery, the only thing I would do differently, beside picking a warmer day, is that we should have come up with a clearer idea of what research questions we wanted to explore before going to the cemetery, so we could choose the monuments accordingly.