Mountain View Cemetery
Mountain View Cemetery is a cemetery in the former city of Fort William, now Thunder Bay, in the Thunder Bay District of Ontario. It is the place of interment recorded in a large number of Fort William death notices and Ontario death registrations, and it holds a war plot in which Commonwealth war dead are commemorated as Thunder Bay (Mountain View) Cemetery.[1][2][3]
Recorded interments
- Gilbert Spence, Hudson's Bay Company post master and factor, in February 1912, following a service at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church.[1]
- Annie Jane Marcell, a resident of Fort William for 89 years, in March 1956, following a funeral from St. Luke's Anglican Church.[2]
- Arne Hansen (1911–1983), brother of the Big Thunder founders Knute and Tor Hansen, and his wife Myrtle Hansen (1915–2006), who share a headstone.[4]
War graves
- Commonwealth war dead buried here are commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission under the name Thunder Bay (Mountain View) Cemetery, with a designated war plot.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fort William Daily Times-Journal, n.d.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Port Arthur News-Chronicle, 24 March 1956, p. 3
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Canadian Virtual War Memorial."[website].Veterans Affairs Canada.Link.(Rights: unknown | Access: open)
- ↑ "Arne Hansen (1911–1983)", Find a Grave memorial 154466572, Mountain View Cemetery, Thunder Bay (inscription "HANSEN ARNE 1911 - 1983 MYRTLE 1915 - 2006"; parents linked as Harald Hansen, 1889–1964, and Sigrid Hansen, 1890–1969).