Northstar Gallery

January 1, 1998

New cemeteries were needed as an alternative to the horrendous burial conditions in the city. The fear of disease-causing "miasmas" from rotting corpses lead to designating new cemeteries on the outskirts of Paris.

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 Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries

January 30, 2001

The history of Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries (MPGC) is almost as long as that of the community it serves.

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Thomas Laqueur

December 20, 2001

Cultural Studies Program, George Mason University

"There is little to be said about death, what we do with the dead is less shrouded in silence. We know that unlike the poor, the dead are not always with us."

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William Arthurs

August 24/2002

This is Local London/CommuniGate

The rationale and implications of consecration.

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Ron Pullan

October 5, 2002

Wakefield and District Family History Society

How society has dealt with mortal remains in the past: as the nineteenth century progressed it was becoming obvious that the local churchyards could no longer cope in the growing towns and cities.  Full story »

Charles Bourget/Trans. Rachel Tunnicliffe

March 24/2005

Quebec Religious Heritage Foundation 

A new tendency has appeared over the last few years to the detriment of the garden-cemeteries. Large cemetery parks have been set up outside towns in rural areas.

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Paul V. Galvin Library Digital History Collection 

March 15, 1999

World's Columbian Exposition of 1893

Before and during the middle ages fairs were of unquestionable benefit, bringing distant communities into closer contact with civilization, and affording an opportunity for comparing home-made and foreign goods.

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