Notable Interments
Some of the notable personalities among the more than 27,000 interred here are:
- Billy Barker (1819–1894), frontiersman, prospector
- Sir Frank Stillman Barnard (1856–1936), statesman
- Robert Beaven (1836–1920), statesman, Premier of British Columbia
- Sir Matthew Begbie (1819–1894), First Chief Justice of British Columbia
- Harlan Carey Brewster (1870–1918), statesman, Premier of British Columbia
- Emily Carr (1871–1945), painter
- Nellie Cashman (1845–1925), nurse and gold prospector
- Sir Henry Pering Pellew Crease (1823–1905) First BC Barrister and early Supreme Court Justice
- Sarah Lindley Crease (1826–1922), artist
- Alexander Edmund Batson Davie (1847–1889), statesman, Premier of British Columbia
- Theodore Davie (1852–1898), jurist, statesman, Premier of British Columbia
- Edgar Dewdney Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, 1892-1897.
- Amor De Cosmos (1825–1897), statesman, Premier of British Columbia
- Sir James Douglas (1803–1877), Hudson's Bay Co. executive, 1st Governor of British Columbia and 2nd Governor of Vancouver Island
- James Dunsmuir (1851–1920), businessman, statesman, Premier of British Columbia
- Andrew Charles Elliott (1828–1889), statesman, Premier of British Columbia
- Roderick Finlayson (1818–1892), considered the "Father of Victoria."
- John Hamilton Gray (1814–1889), pre-Confederation Premier of PEI, a Father of Confederation and a BC Supreme Court Justice.
- Byron Ingemar Johnson (1890–1964), statesman, Premier of British Columbia
- Sir Richard McBride (1870–1917), statesman, Premier of British Columbia
- James E. McMillan (????-1907), mayor of Victoria in 1872
- William Henry McNeill, Master of the SS Beaver from which, in 1843, while at McNeill Bay, Governor Douglas located Fort Victoria. Port McNeill is named for him.
- Joseph Despard Pemberton (1821–1893), Surveyor-General of Vancouver Island
- Sophie Pemberton (1869–1959), painter
- Edward Gawler Prior (1853–1920), statesman, Premier of British Columbia
- John Robson (1824–1892), statesman, Premier of British Columbia
- George Anthony Walkem (1834–1908) statesman, Premier of British Columbia
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