ag along with well-known historian T.W. Paterson as he guides you to some of the outstanding graves and monuments in the Cowichan Valley’s 13 public cemeteries.

Chapter highlights include:

• Vice-Admiral Edmund Rollo Mainguy was ‘father of the modern Royal Canadian Navy’

• The Chemainus sawmill shut down and stores closed to mark Fred Veitch’s funeral

• Gentle-born Gertrude Halhed dutifully followed her husband to the middle of nowhere

• ‘Lord’ William Probyn Thompson stepped into path of an oncoming locomotive

• Mildred Maude Lilley–was she a murder victim or suicide?

• Artist Edward John Hughes is now as famous as Emily Carr

• Nigel Kingscote’s headstone is one of the most outstanding in all of British Columbia

• War casualties Allan and Geoffrey Hook are buried overseas but their headstones are in St. John’s, Cobble Hill cemetery

276 pages with 70 colour photos.

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