Are the men buried in the cemetery survived by family members?
It’s likely that most of the men buried in the BC Penitentiary cemetery are survived by living family members — including siblings, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and nieces and nephews. Since starting this website in 2003 I have heard from the survivors of seven of the men interred at the site. Sook Sias’s (991) great-nephew, George Quocksister, lives in Campbell River, BC; Jim Tarasoff’s (4214) granddaughter lives in Nelson, BC; George Sidney Williams’s (5920) niece lives near Cobourg, ON and his great-niece near Guelph, ON; one of Don Bottineau’s (9720) sons lives in New Westminster, BC, very close to the cemetery; Stephen Poole’s descendants live in Fort Ware, BC; a schoolmate of Reginald Colpitts lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; and Gordon Hawley’s niece lives in Fort St. John, BC. Return to the top of this page Do you know the identity of every individual buried in the cemetery? No. There are two men buried in the cemetery whose identity it has not yet been possibl
