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A Guide to Cemeteries
Cemeteries are among the most enduring records of local history. In the days before churches and cemeteries were established in pioneer settlements, those who died were often buried on family homesteads. The location of these gravesites is more often than not lost to memory.
Although many early cemetery maps and record books also have been lost to flood or fire, much of this information remains "written in stone" on individual grave markers—a veritable Who’s-Who of the local community. At a time when families lived and died in the same neighbourhood, cemetery inscriptions tell the tale of early hardships—loss of infants and young children, death of mothers and wives in childbirth, the ravages of infectious diseases—and of hardy pioneers who lived well beyond their allotted "three-score and ten".For anyone interested in the history of a community, a visit to the local cemetery is a "must", if only to pay your respects to those early settlers whose stories are the basis of local post-1870 history.
List of Current Cemeteries
- Broad Valley (Homewood Bergthaler Mennonite)
- Carman Greenwood
- Carman Our Lady of Mount Carmel
- Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite
- Graysville Riverside
- Graysville Rosevalley Hutterite Brethren
- Îlets-de-Bois
- Roseisle
- St. Daniel Roman Catholic
- St. Peter & Paul Ukrainian Catholic
List of Abandoned Burial Sites
- Campbellville Burial Site
- Harrison Burial Site
- Kennedy Burial Site
- McKee Burial Site
- Stephenfield Summerfeld Mennonite
Please note that abandoned burial sites are located on private property and are not accessible to the public.A complete Guide to Carman-Dufferin Cemeteries (pdf 7 MB)
is available to download or print.
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