[Image-1] In some cities, a cemetery plot is prime real estate. An overabundance of the living leaves little room for the dead, driving down the availability of cemetery space even as prices for plots go up. A grave in perennially-overpriced Vancouver can cost as much as $52,000. But there’s a different kind of spectre haunting […]
Graveyards
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The unclaimed dead beneath our city’s streets
[Image-1] While the new Central Library is a hive of activity, the disused hulk of its predecessor sits down the street quiet as a grave. Fitting, as there’s an actual graveyard underneath the old library property on Spring Garden Road. That may come as a surprise to some, since there’s no interpretative panel, plaque or […]