Mystery of Surrey’s pet cemetery deepens with some saying there are human remains
Global News
According to the website findagrave.com, one of the headstones represents the Wilson family — the created remains of a husband, a wife and their pets.
A volunteer who takes care of a pet cemetery in a Surrey, B.C., neighbourhood said there are also cremated human remains on the property.
“When I found out about this cemetery being left to be grown over with blackberry (bushes) and stuff, I just made it my little self-appointed project,” David Corrin, an ordinary member of the Royal Canadian Legion, told Global News.
“Somebody must take care of this. So I took up taking care of the property.”
Corrin said there are three people buried on the property.
According to the website findagrave.com, one of the headstones represents the Wilson family — the created remains of a husband, a wife and their pets.
The website states a man named Stanley Gray also chose to have his cremains buried in the pet cemetery along with his three pets, Bonnie, Sport and Cappy.
The plot of land in Newton, at 147 A and 78 Ave., has been used since at least the early ’50s to bury family pets.
There are believed to be about 700 animals buried on the property along with suspected cremated human remains.