Family History Society

The Alberta Family History Society has a website where you can do a cemetery search. There are 165,000 cemetery records to search. You can either order the full cemetery transcript or ask for specific details.

http://www.afhs.ab.ca/data/cemeteries/search.php

Edmonton Public Library

Edmonton Public Library has a website where you can search their index to locate the date on which an obituary was published in the Edmonton Journal. Index covers from January 1959 to December 1982.

http://www.epl.ca/EPLObituaries.cfm

Edmonton Journal Death Archive

If you want to search for obituaries in the Edmonton Journal you can go to the website:

http://classifieds.canada.com/edmonton/archives/index.aspx?cls_id=33935&goback=30

The earliest archived date is Sunday, May 12, 2002.

Topland Cemetery

The Topland community was settled during the years 1926-1932. The school district was formed about this time.  In 1936 it was decided that a cemetery was needed in this district. Shares were sold for twenty-five cents a share and along with revenue from dances, etc. enough money was raised to buy two acres of land on the S.W. corner of section 11-62-7-W5. This became the Topland Cemetery where many of the old-timers of the district have been laid to rest. In 1975 a monument was erected in honor of the pioneers buried there--money for this was made possible by a special grant issued for the restoration of older cemeteries. (info taken from the history book "Echoe's of Fort Assiniboine And Districts" p.183-184)

Here is a list of surnames of people buried in Topland Cemetery as of 1994.

Bridgeman, Bookhout, Bready, Betts, Carlson, Carty, Casavant, Courtepatte, Carter, Dean, Davison, Fidler, Fleming, Forman, Green, Hedenstad, Jackman, Lehr, McQueen, Meek, Meredith, Macleod, Olson, Stepaniuk, Smith, Teas, Thomas, Turner, Vobeyda, Wharton, Whitehead, Wiese.

Vital Statistics

If you want to search for vital statistics, some Canadian provinces are available online.

British Columbia:  http://search.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca

You can choose All indexes and then List of Genealogy Indexes.
Options of birth/marriage/death/baptisms or All indexes

Saskatchewan:  http://www.isc.ca/VitalStatistics

Choose Genealogy and Genealogy Index Searches
You can search births more than 100 years ago
Deaths prior to 1917
Marriages are not available yet

Manitoba: http://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca

Choose Search the databases
Births (more than 100 years ago)
Marriages (more than 80 years ago)
Deaths (more than 70 years ago)

Census Records

If you are looking for family members in Canada, you can search the census records online. Go to the following website: http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/

Choose the year 1901 or 1911
Choose the province / district / surname

Klondyke Cemetery

It's been a while since I wrote something on this blog.  I wondered what could I write about.  Then the thought came to mind that I could write about the different cemeteries in Barrhead County.

A cemetery we had copied back in 1994 was the Klondyke or Doris-Timeu Cemetery.  It is located at NW 7 63 4 W5 northeast of Fort Assiniboine, Alberta. At that time there were about six or seven rows. Some of the family names buried there are as follows: Ashby, Anderson, Chaney, Cooper, Ehl, Graham, Hughes, McKeigue, Marcel, Mitchell, Mowery, Nelson, Nickols(Nichols), Schulte, Sheren, Thom, Thiede and Utas.

The local history book "Echoe's of Fort Assiniboine & Districts" written in 1982 has a story written about Klondike City - Now Doris. You can find this book online: http://www.ourroots.ca
Go to "browse" and choose the letters in the title.   (http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=7546)

On page 69 you will find the story by Fern Rader about Klondike City.  The earliest settlers in the district were Ollie Finstead and Anton Holmes.  In 1924 Mrs. Elmer Nichols died in childbirth at a nursing home in Westlock. The mother and baby were buried in a corner of the yard, and were the first graves in the present cemetery.  Read the rest of the story on pages 70-72.