Photos taken at Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa. The site has been designated Canada's national cemetery. According to the Beechwood website, the cemetery was founded in 1873 "on a 160 acre tract of land on the outskirts of Ottawa, part of the original McPhail farm (100 acres) and the MacKay / Keefer estates. It became a prime example of the type of rural cemetery that emerged in the United States and Canada in the 19th century characterized by winding roads, picturesque vistas, wooded groves, unique landscaping as well as monuments and markers of considerable architectural and historical interest."

In Beechwood Cemetery, by Archibald Lampman

Here the dead sleep--the quiet dead. No sound

Disturbs them ever, and no storm dismays.

Winter mid snow caresses the tired ground,

And the wind roars about the woodland ways.

Springtime and summer and red autumn pass,

With leaf and bloom and pipe of wind and bird,

And the old earth puts forth her tender grass,

By them unfelt, unheeded and unheard.

Our centuries to them are but as strokes

In the dim gamut of some far-off chime.

Unaltering rest their perfect being cloaks--

A thing too vast to hear or feel or see--

Children of Silence and Eternity,

They know no season but the end of time.