Ardrossan Cemeteries

Fairmount Cemetery. Easy to find, located in between the divided highway, on Highway 16, about 5 km north-east of Ardrossan. The entrance sign indicates it was established in 1898. While it's straddled by highways today, the Fairmount Methodist Church was once also located there. The original church that stood there was relocated to the Ardrossan town site (about 1909?), and eventually became known as the Ardrossan United Church. The Church is still associated with the cemetery. There is one tombstone from a fallen soldier of WWI - read more. [Link to Billion Graves & Find a Grave]

  

St. John's Lutheran Cemetery. Located in rural Strathcona County, the adjacent Church was established in 1936, rebuilt in 1964 and expanded on in 1986. Easy to find using Google maps. [Link to Billion Graves]

 

Fort Saskatchewan Cemeteries

Fort Saskatchewan RCMP Graves. A small plot for fallen RCMP members can be found in the Fort Saskatchewan Cemetery. In 1985, the Fort Saskatchewan Historical Society erected a cairn to identify the original North-West Mounted Police plot from 1895. Learn more - RCMP Graves Memorial

Fort Saskatchewan Cemetery. The Fort Saskatchewan Cemetery has been in existence for well over 100 years and contains over 2,000 memorials. The City of Fort Saskatchewan says on their website that the cemetery in existence since 1899, but the first recorded burial is that of Miranda Wright who died at the age of 48 in 1889. The Alberta Genealogical Society did some research in the 1980s that indicated there had been a fire, so they are not sure if there are more burials that were never recorded or if the records were lost. The cemetery is divided into separate sections for RCMP members, Veterans, infants, old sections and new sections. [Link to Prairie Souls & Find a Grave]

 

Fort Saskatchewan Goal (Jail) Cemetery. This is where they buried 19 people who died at the former Fort Saskatchewan jail. Capital punishment was still a thing in Canada until 1999, and the Fort Saskatchewan Jail was one of the places executions took place. The men buried here are said to those of executed prisoners, and others whose bodies went unclaimed by family. The cemetery was moved in the 1950's to make room for Highway 15. There are markers, but no names on the markers and the cemetery is rumoured to be haunted. Visions Intuitive Paranormal compiled a YouTube video with their findings. There is no website, but Google Maps will get you there. A researcher with Find a Grave has compiled a list of people she believes are buried here, another website suggests that the Jail lost the records of the men who are buried here. [Link to Find a Grave]

 

Fort Saskatchewan Hutterite Cemetery. This cemetery is on the Scotford Hutterite Colony, near Josephburg. Tours can be arranged by contacting the Colony.

Josephburg Cemeteries

Josephburg Reformed Church Cemetery. The adjacent church was built in 1901 by the German-speaking Galician Austrian homesteaders that arrived in the area in the early 1890's. The Church is still active, but joined with the United Church in 1970. [Link to Prairie Souls & Billion Graves]

Bethany Lutheran Cemetery. From what we've discovered so far, a fellow made arrangements for a church and cemetery in 1900. Google maps take us to a location outside of Josephburg, but we haven't been there yet to explore. Learn more. [Link to Prairie Souls & Find a Grave]

Calvert Cemetery. Calvert Cemetery is (was?) a non-denominational cemetery, located on a plot of land in Josephburg donated by Robert and Harry Calvert. [Link to Billion Graves & Find a Grave]

Sherwood Park Cemeteries

Clover Bar Cemetery. Established in 1901 behind the Clover Bar Methodist Church, on land donated by homesteader W.H. Wilkinson (now the industrial area on the north side of Sherwood Park that borders Highway 16). Wilkinson then got together with 9 others and formed the Clover Bar Cemetery Company, selling plots to locals. In 1931 for the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the first Clover Bar settlers, they erected a stone gateway to the cemetery as a permanent jubilee memorial. [Link to Billion Graves & Prairie Souls]

  

Glenwood Cemetery. Huge cemetery & 97 acre memorial gardens located right in Sherwood Park, owned by Glenwood Funeral Home and Cemetery (Arbor Memorial). [Link to Billion Graves]

Rural Cemeteries

Agricola | St. Paul’s of Agricola Cemetery. Established 1893 (?). We are still in the process of researching this cemetery and its history. Agricola was an early community in Strathcona County. [Link to Find a Grave]

Colchester | St. Stephen's Anglican Church Cemetery. Established in 1898, this cemetery is located on land donated by Samuel Galley for a church site and cemetery. The cemetery remains but the original church that was built in 1901, St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, was moved to south Edmonton and renamed “The First Church of St. John the Evangelist.” [Link to Find a Grave]

Good Hope Cemetery. The Good Hope District was established by European settlers in the early 1900's. The church, now a historical resource, was built in 1914. We haven't found the history of the cemetery yet, but it's reasonable to assume it would be of this age. The Church isn't well marked on Google Maps, but the Communty Hall (Good Hope Hall, which was once the community's school) is and the Church is just east. [Link to Prairie Souls & Find a Grave]

Lamoureux | Mission of the Notre-Dame de Lourdes Cemetery. Okay, so technically it's in Sturgeon County...Lamoureux is a hamlet beside the city of Fort Saskatchewan, on the North bank of the Saskatchewan River.  Our Lady of the Lourdes served as the first parish in this area. The Church was declared a Historical Site in 1984 & the community is one of Alberta's first French-Canadian communities. The cemetery is the eternal home to many of those families. Read more. [Link to Find a Grave]

Deville-North Cooking Lake | St. Margaret's Church Cemetery. This one is a little trickier to find, but well worth the excursion and Google Maps will get you there. The adjacent church is super cool, it was built in 1912 and is a designated historic resource. Local historians used ground penetrating radar & discovered unmarked sites, now marked by white crosses and by bricks on the outside of the cemetery fence. Read more. [Link to Find a Grave]

  

South Cooking Lake Cemetery. Established in 1912 on a hill near South Cooking Lake, it is a non-denominational cemetery for community members. The community had great foresight and purchased the land for the cemetery together. [Link to Find a Grave]