Ross Bay Cemetery

My group decided to research some monuments (early victorian) at the Ross Bay Cemetery.  We collected many pictures and descriptions of some of the early monuments in the cemetery.  We decided to choose these monuments largely because they were close in proximity but also because they gave us some interesting information about the patterns of variation in death ages and other variations of the grave.  Because of this my research question is:

For monument 1, the dates of the deaths of younger (under 20 years old) family members are close together (1884-5). Could something specific have happened to these individuals that could have caused their deaths to occur so close together?

The bruials in monument one are Bernice, E who died Jan 16 1884 as well as Edwin and Ernest Leigh who died April 19 and 22 1884.  All 3 of these children were just babies when they died, E bernice only being 16 months of age at death.  There is the question as to why these children died at such a young age and why so close together? With further research  should be able to find whether there was a sickness or something like that, but without being there in the past we are unable to answer this question.  Yes there could have been a sickness going around, or the babies could have died of freak accident maybe a house fire for the two siblings or something like that. It is sad to know that these families lost loved ones so young, and its hard to understand because we do not and never will know why they passed. In the sources below we see that there was illness going around at this time a lot of it being in chinese immigrants so maybe this was caught by these children.


link to map: http://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?vps=2&hl=en&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=214005049597555568959.0004b8900ded7fa7ea4ad

sources:
http://web.uvic.ca/vv/student/chinatown/Tongs/CCBA.html