On a gently sloping point with sweeping views of the Olympic Peninsula and the Pacific Ocean, a ceremonial altar stands watch over the simply marked graves of hundreds of Chinese immigrants. Many of the people buried in the Harling Point cemetery were among Canada’s first Chinese immigrants, arriving in the late 18th to early 19th centuries to work as cheap labor on the Canadian Pacific Railway. Approximately 400 people are buried in the cemetery, with the unmarked remains of an additional 900 located in 13 mass graves. The history of the cemetery…
