The intention of this thesis project will be primarily focused on issues of the cemetery that involve
its utilization as a vehicle to cultivate an awareness of heritage and its role in establishing a
framework on which to promote the sense of communal identity in an authentic manner. For as
many divergent societies that co-exist on earth there are equally as many diverse ritualistic
patterns involving death and dying particular to each society. Although the study of these
ritualistic patterns is an intriguing one, with regard to utilization of the cemetery as a vehicle to
strengthen the identity of place, I believe, it is essential to accommodate and enrich already
accepted notions of death and dying particular to Vancouver and Canada. As a consequence of the
country's age, it seems that there is always the pressure to import character and values from other
places. To begin to define an identity and therefore cultivate community there has to be
acknowledgment and acceptance of heritage as an initial point of growth. For these reasons, rather
than replace an already existing set of rituals with foreign ideologies surrounding death and dying,
it is crucial that existing rituals not be discarded.
The proposed site for this project is the Grandview Cut rail corridor that extends between the False
Creek Flats and Grandview Woodlands in East Vancouver. Specifically, the site is situated between
Clark Drive on the west and Slocan Drive on the east.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/4422 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Burkitt, James |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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