Forgotten First World War veteran finally gets his headstone

For 79 years, visitors to the Fraser Cemetery in New Westminster have walked past an unmarked grave not knowing it belonged to First World War veteran William A. Stevenson.
Next Sunday, on the centennial of the war’s end, his name and final resting place will no longer be forgotten.
Stevenson survived the war and was in his 50s when he died of a stroke on April 14, 1939. He was buried not far from his home on 315 Columbia St., looking over the Fraser River, his funeral paid for by Can