Edmonton burial database

The city of Edmonton provides an online database to locate a burial location of a deceased person. You can search these cemeteries. http://www.edmonton.ca/for_residents/service-cemetery-search.aspx

Beechmount	12420 104 St
Clover Bar	2025 Yellowhead Trail
Edmonton	11820 107 Ave
Little Mountain	16025 50 St
Mount Pleasant	5420 106 St
Northern Lights	15203 Campbell Road
South Haven	5004 Meridian St

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