Managed by the RM of Louise.

Greenwood Cemetery is divided by Provincial Highway #253.

Both sections of the cemetery are still in active use, although pre-1950 burials are found in this part of it, on the north side of the highway and there are no longer any available plots here.

(Source: RM of Louise website [2023/12; Adapted])

The first official meeting of the Pilot Mound burying grounds at which minutes were kept appears to have taken place on August 1, 1889. However, the booklet dated from 1930 and entitled "Memories of Pioneer Days at Pilot Mound" by Rev. Wm. Reid states that the first to be laid to rest in the cemetery were John Stevens, Mrs. Martin, mother of Mrs. James Fraser and the infant son of Mr.and Mrs. R. J. Stephenson. (The latter died on Oct. 6 1882)

The village of Pilot Mound was first started in 1879 at the foot of a large mound, and was called Balmoral but as another post office by that name already existed, the name Pilot Mound was suggested by James Barbour, as the Mound had been a Pilot to many settlers travelling on the roadless prairie. What was known as the Manitou Road ran across the extreme southern slope of the Old Mound when the railway reached Manitou (a distance of 30 miles eastward) in 1882, and this was perhaps the busiest road in southern Manitoba at that time. All supplies had to be brought from Emerson, 100 miles away.

In 1885 the railway came through, but by-passed the village of Pilot Mound by about 3 miles. Therefore the 2 had to be moved to the present site to take advantage of the railway.

(Source: Manitoba Genealogical Society [Adapted])

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Dominion Land Survey coordinates: LSD01-17-03-11-W1

In the Rural Municipality of Louise

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A part of the town's story, and those of its inhabitants, from the early days of European settlement through roughly 1930 is told in the volume "Memories of Pioneer Days at Pilot Mound", in a related pamphlet entitled "Pilot Mound Illustrated", and in the volume "Pilot Mound 50, District 75, Reunion, July 1954".

Free digital versions of these and many other Manitoba local history books can be found online in the University of Manitoba Digital Collections. There is also a list of such books organized by district and town name on the Manitoba Historical Society's website on their page entitled "Finding Aid: Manitoba Local History Books".

A list of burials in this cemetery is available from the Manitoba Genealogical Society (reference #0247), transcribed by a member or members in 1985-87. Also available to MGS members is a searchable online database named the "MGS Manitoba Name Index" (or MANI). Some additional information is contained in the 1996 MGS publication "Carved in Stone: Manitoba Cemeteries and Burial Sites" (revised edition, Special Projects Publication, 106 pages).