Cemetery and Other History Links

Cemeteries: Their Culture, Stories and Preservation

• AT Conservators: A professional heritage conservation company that has done extensive work on monuments (both cemetery and otherswise) throughout the world. Recent information on a project at the Krakow cemetery should be up on their page soon.
• Association for Gravestone Studies
• The Brookwood Cemetery Society: dedicated to preserving the Brookwood Cemetery, formerly the London Necropolis.
• Cemeteries, Graveyards, Burying Grounds
• Cemetery Art (An interesting page dedicated to the art of cemetery monuments with a section on roadside memorials)
• Cemetery Updating Services: This company's services include managing and updating cemetery records as well as mapping of cemetery plot layouts. Of interest to those operating cemeteries.
• City of the Silent (great historical references and timelines)
• CPR - Cemetery Preservation and Restoration (an organization dedicated to restoring and preserving historic cemeteries)
• Hartsdale Pet Cemetery ( this is the oldest pet cemeteries in the United States - and the oldest in the world still in use. The history of this cemetery, the four legged friends resting their, and their owners, is very interesting and often touching).
• Head Stone Hunters (Nice folks in other cities who will take pictures of your relatives graves for you)
• Interment.net (links to on line cemetery records)
• Kearl's guide to the Sociology of Death: Quests for longevity andSymbolic Immortality
• Klaus Medeke's Cemetery Links
• Monumental Inscriptions (A guide to recording and preserving monument inscriptions. Also an excellant note on cemetery vandalism)
• Old Bones: This site features great photography of cemeteries and monuments by eight different artists.
• Tomb with a View (a cemetery preservation newsletter)
• The Tombstone Traveller's Guide
• Western Canada Cemetery Association
• Victoria Tombstone Tales: The Ross Bay Cemetery. A great site containing a short tour of this historic British Columbia Cemetery.

Canadian History Links (with a concentration on Calgary and Area)

• Alberta Family histories Society (lots of searchable stuff)
• Alberta Historical Society (With links to all Alberta chapters)
• Archives Network of Alberta Database
• A Little History: A great sampling of Western Canadian history
• Calgary Horticultural Society (yes, there's history in the flora too!)
• Calgary Public Library
• Canada Rocks the World
• Canadian Culture
• Canadian Genealogy and History Links
• Canadian Women in History
• Early Canadiana Online: a searchable database of early Canadian Literature
• Flint's Canada Page
• Ghost Towns of Alberta: A geat Alberta history site with very good photos by Johnnie Bachusky. In fact, I like Johnnie's photos so much, here is another site featuring his work! Check out these sites if you are planning a trip to Alberta
• History Television
• Important Moments in Canadian History
• Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta
• National Archives of Canada
• Our Heritage (Bruce Haig's great, award winning Canadian Heritage Site)
• Ontario census, 1871
• Southern Alberta Pioneers and Their Descendants
• Veterans Affairs Canada. Contains general information about Canada's war veterans, recollections of veterans, lists of medals and honours (with good photos and explanations of each medal), a beautiful section on the Books of Rememberance on display in Ottawa, and much more.

Mountie Links (NWMP, RNWMP and RCMP)

• Bibliography of Mountie history references
• Fort Battleford National Historic Site
• Fort Calgary Historic Park
• The Fort Museum, Fort Macleod
• Fort Steele Heritage Town
• Fort Walsh National Historic Site
• The Honour Roll (those Mounted Policemen killed in the line of duty)
• The North West Resistance Digitization Project (University of Saskatchewan Libraries)
• RCMP Centennial Museum
• RCMP Home Page
• Riders of the Plains Commemorative Troop Association
• Wood Mountain (Sitting Bull's home during his stay in Canada)

Cemeteries, Indexes and databases (look up gravesites)

• Alberta Family Histories Society Cemetery Index or this one for Calgary listings
• British Columbia Cemetery finding Aid
• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission. (Contains a searchable database of Commonwealth war dead.)
• Edmonton's Cemeteries
• The Forever Network: shows current trends in memorialization. "Forever Hollywood" also features gravesites and memorials for well known movie stars
• The Jewish Cemetery in Kosice, Slovakia (the site for this endangered cemetery in eastern Slovakia contains an index of burials.
• Jewish Genealogy Society of Southern Alberta Cemetery Project: contains an on-line database of jewish burials in the Calgary area
• Lloydminster cemetery database
• Newfoundland and Labrador Cemeteries: Transcriptions of Newfoundland and Labrador cemeteries listed by district
• Old West Gravesites: Characters from the American Wild West.
• Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid
• Saskatchewan Cemeteries and Obituaries on line
• Saskatoon's Cemeteries
• Victims of the Titanic Buried in Halifax: from the Maritime Museum of Canada.
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The Lighter Side (but still in good taste)

• The Final Curtain: An elaborate hoax perpetrated by web performance artist Joey Skaggs which outlines a series of artistic cemetery "Theme Parks".

Other Links of Interest

• An American's Guide to Canada (what to know before you come North)