Ross Bay Cemetery

This is a picture of my group members.
I was busy wandering off by the Presbyterian section that I could not feature myself in this wonderful photo. Oh shame.

Ross Bay was SO beautiful. It was my first time ever to step in a cemetery, so my group had to deal with my squeals and constantly yelling, "AH I AM SO SORRY FOR STEPPING ON YOU, DEAD PERSON!"

We chose a pretty good day to do the field work. It was sunny, but still COLD. Most of the field was shadowed off and since it's by the water, the sea breaze did not help either. We walked about for an hour to see what we wanted to choose for our topic and noticed few particular things. We saw wargraves in the Roman Catholic side that was newly put in (or so it seems like). They were all in line (except for few) and helped linining it up, they had flowers and decorative grass(?) plants going side by side the graves. We figured they were put in recently to recognize the ones who died over seas. We also noticed the differences between the Christian groups. Roman Catholic graves had bigger crosses, mentioning of Mary, and had seperate site for all the M. Sisters. Other Christian sites like Presbyterian and Anglican had Angels featured or had celtic crosses. (It was definately fascinating to see the different ways to 'decorate' the crosses).

We wanted to see what would have effected us to pick the sights of the graves and what could effect our statement for this project. One of the things that all of our group members agreed on was... that the sunlight manipulated us to choose spots. It was so cold in the shade, that I chose two of the graves just because they were in the sunlight.

This definately was an interesting experience. I think I might come back to Ross Bay just for a walk or so. I was trying to convince my boyfriend and some of my friends to go to the Ross Bay Cemetery for a date or a stroll, and they thought I was crazy. This place was so peaceful and beautiful. Thanks Erin for this amazing experience!