COVID-19 Updates
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Cemetery

COVID-19 Guidelines
Updated: January 29, 2021
Graveside gatherings are now limited to a maximum of 10 people, including the officiant. There are no exceptions.
This is an order from the Provincial Health Officer and you and your funeral provider must comply with the limit of 10 attendees, with no exceptions. If the limit of 10 is not observed, a Bylaw Officer will be notified.
For more information about the order, please visit www.gov.bc.ca/COVID19.
Burial arrangements
- Please contact Capilano View Cemetery at 604-925-7007 to arrange a burial between 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday to Friday.
- All arrangements should be made by appointment over the phone. It is currently not possible to make arrangements in the office due to COVID-19.
Please have the following information available to help us arrange an interment:
- your name, address, and phone number
- your relationship to the deceased person
- the full legal name of the deceased person
- the last address of the deceased person
- date and place of birth of the deceased person
- date and place of death of the deceased person
- the name of the funeral home you have chosen
- date and time you would like for the service
Interment services are scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis. Having more than one date option will help with finding a time to suit your preferences.
Limit on number of guests
- If more than 10 people are present, you will be asked to disperse so the service can proceed. If this does not happen, a Bylaw Officer will be notified. Staff will leave the area and not proceed with the burial until it is resolved. New arrangements may need to be made on a different day, at additional cost.
- For contact tracing purposes, you or your funeral provider are required to keep a list of all attendees, including name and phone number, at a graveside gathering.
- A hand sanitizer station is required. All attendees must keep a two-metre distance from each other.
- If someone is speaking as part of the graveside service, they must be at least three metres from others.
- Staff will use barricades to cordon off the grave and area where they are working. Please respect these barricades.
- Please leave the cemetery immediately after the graveside service is complete. The services finishes when the casket is lowered to ground level. Staff will complete the burial once the gathering is dispersed.
- If you wish to witness the completion, please move well away from the burial site, maintaining physical distancing, so that staff may complete their work.
Thank you for doing your part
- Please stay home if you are sick.
- Keep two metres apart at all times.
- Wash or sanitize your hands frequently.
If you have any questions, please contact Capilano View Cemetery at 604-925-7007.
About Capilano View Cemetery
Capilano View offers a variety of interment options including full casket burial, burial of cremated remains and above-ground columbaria niches.
Since 1926, the Capilano View Cemetery has offered the residents of West Vancouver a tranquil place of beauty and history to remember and reflect.
A seating area including an ornamental water basin and table for preparing flowers and holding small gatherings is now open for use on the north-west corner of the Birch Area of the cemetery. We hope you will enjoy the view!
Residency & Rates
In-ground Interment Options
Above Ground Columbaria Niche
Memorial Markers
Flowers
Contact
1490 3rd Street, West Vancouver, BC V7S 2Y2
The cemetery is open daily, from dawn to dusk.
Offices will be closed on Monday, February 15 for Family Day.
Washrooms are open 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. To help prevent the spread of COVID-19, the District has increased the frequency of cleaning in public washrooms.
Capilano View Cemetery arrangements are now done over the phone. You may see us in the office, but due to COVID-19, we are not scheduling in-person appointments.
For general information or to arrange an interment, call 604-925-7007, between 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday to Friday.