A pay phone planted in the side of a hill in Greater Victoria’s Royal Oak Burial Park offers a “profound” new way to grieve.
The path there is a long one, uphill past the landmark Art Deco building that cost the cemetery board $16,000 to build in the 1930s.
Adorned in painted flowers, birds, greenery and a sweet little dog courtesy of local artist Beth Threlfall, the phone is the newest form of remembrance in the 100-year-old park that is always evolving ways to help people grieve.
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