Please drop in at any time on Saturday morning to assist with the cleanup. Please bring gloves and, if possible, tools such as clippers, scrapers, a rake, a weedeater, or an outdoor broom. Many hands make light work. 

Everyone welcome!

This special presentation of Silver and Sage will take place on the November 5th, first Thursday of November (instead of the second Thursday). This presentation will feature the literature of WW1, and is entitled, "A Little Patch of Ground".

"A Little Patch of Ground - Literature of WW1" explores the experiences of people on the battlefront through the prism of poetry, stories, and memoirs they left behind. Their personal stories are a microcosm through which we understand, on a human level, the horror, trauma, and devastating effects of war - the tragic waste of it all.  While WW1 is the focus, the themes are universal.

A Service of Remembrance will be held on November 8th at 10 am.

The service will start in the church and then will move outside to honour the veterans in St. Luke's Cemetery. The names of the more than 198 veterans resting or commemorated in St. Luke's Cemetery will be read and remembrance pots will be placed on their graves.

The service will be livestreamed starting at 10 am as well as recorded to view later at your convenience. 

As we get ready for our Service of Remembrance on November 8th, we have been collecting and updating the veterans' stories at St. Luke's website.

We have also included several letters written by the Rev. William Barton. The Rev. Barton was a chaplain in WWI and wrote letters to the Daily Colonist from the front. Here links to his letters from July 4, 1915 and August 29, 1915. 

The Veterans' List at St. Luke's website has been recently updated. We have added more veterans to our Veterans' List, bringing the total to 198 veterans. We expect there could more as we do more research. 

This e-mail list was compiled from contact information St. Luke’s Cemetery Committee has regarding descendants, family members, and friends of people buried in St. Luke’s Cemetery. 

The e-mail list is used to send out newsletters and information about special events regarding the cemetery at various times throughout the year. If you do not wish to be on this list to receive these occasional updates, please reply to this e-mail and let me know and I will take you off the list.

We also encourage you to visit the Cemetery pages of St. Luke's website. Click on the Read More button below. The Cemetery section at the website includes links to a database of veterans buried in St. Luke's Cemetery, stories of the people resting in the cemetery, and a database with names and plot locations.