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A Guide to Funerary Art in Manitoba (Canada)

It is interesting to note that 100 years ago, at the height of the garden cemetery movement, in which ambitious stones were placed in lovely garden settings, the graveyard was a very busy place.
Picknickers flocked there. People went on Sunday strolls there. The many details presented on various stones would have been entertaining and even meaningful.
Victorian cemeteries and the gravemarkers they contain are a veritable treatise on ritual, design, craftsmanship, poetry, and
belief. They are complex and rich in symbolism, and so it is nearly essential to have handy some information about funerary art – the types of gravemarkers and the wealth of symbols used in their
creation.
This guide has been developed by the Carman/Dufferin Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee, which is devoted to preserving our own fine collection of local cemeteries.
The following information will help those people who are guides leading a cemetery tour. It provides the basic information that
will help to “read” gravemarkers – through their forms, styles, materials and especially through the symbolic iconography that was
so important to gravemarker designs of the era.

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