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BEFORE: MAIN DRIVEWAY IN BROOKSIDE CEMETERY, WINNIPEG, MAN., IN 1898. 
The Evolution of a Cemetery. 
Next to the regeneration, so to speak, of the rural 
cemetery or burial ground, developed bn crude lines, 
and, as a rule, laid out and improved by members of 
the community having little or no knowledge what- 
ever of how such things should be done, comes the 
difficult task of re-creating cemeteries of larger pre- 
tensions. 
There are many such scattered over the broad face 
of our land, cemeteries for which large areas were 
provided, but to the development of which little con- 
sideration has ever been given. In some cases a sec- 
tion has been subdivided into lots, without any re- 
gard to design or utility, and slabs and monuments 
scattered over its surface, only regulated by the will 
of the persons interested. In other cases there would 
appear to have been no attempt to control burials at 
all. It is needless to touch upon the planting and im- 
provement of such places. All there is to it seems to 
be that the City Fathers provided the land, and may- 
hap arranged a political office for its care ; and so on, 
as the years passed, with no one responsible for its 
maintenance, it retrograded until, in the light of mod- 
ern cemetery practice, such burial grounds have be- 
come, in a much higher sense even than formerly, a 
reproach and shame to the contributing communities. 
In a modified sense, such strictures may be aptly 
passed upon the thriving city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, 
which although not in the United States, is close 
enough to come under the ban of deserved criticism. 
Only a very few years ago, as will be observed in 
the illustration given, Brookside Cemetery, Winnipeg, 
was a very forlorn spot. It comprises 160 acres of 
flat land, there being little more than 2 feet varia- 
tion in level throughout its area, and from 1878 to 
1898 it remained in the care of the City Fathers, 
against whom in the later years there, was serious com- 
plaint by the people concerning its condition. In the 
latter year, Mr. D. D. England, the present super- 
AFTER: GENERAL VIEW OF BROOKSIDE CEMETERY. 
