A Better Place - Death and Burial in Nineteenth-Century Ontario

A Better Place: Death and Burial in Nineteenth-Century Ontario

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English | 208 pages | Dundurn/Ontario Genealogical Society (April 11, 2011) | 1554888999 | EPUB,PDF | 7 Mb

A Better Place describes the practices around death and burial in 19th-century Ontario. Funeral rituals, strong religious beliefs, and a firm conviction that death was a beginning not an end helped the bereaved through their times of loss in a century where death was always close at hand.

The book describes the pioneer funeral in detail as well as the factors that changed this simple funeral into the elaborate etiquette-driven Victorian funeral at the end of the century. It includes the sources of various funeral customs, including the origins of embalming that gave rise to the modern-day funeral parlour. The evolution of cemeteries is explained with the beginnings of cemeteries in specific towns given as examples.