The Catholic Mission of Our Lady of Mount Carmel; in virtue of a decree dated December 15, 1883, has become a corporation from that time. However, there are records to show that Catholic missionaries performed pastoral duties in the district as far back as 1837. On the 2nd day of May of that year Father Poire baptized a child by the name of Elzear in the St. Daniel District.

In 1869 Father F. Kavanagh, of St. Francois Xavier, Man., came once a month to the St. Daniel District, remaining a week at a time, to attend to the spiritual needs of the Catholic people of St. Daniel and Carman District. On the 29th of March, 1893, property was bought from Mr. George Sexsmith on the southwest corner of Roblin Avenue and Stanley Street, and a small church was built, possibly that same year.

Around 1912, Carman became a Mission served from Starbuck. Due to loss of parish records when the Starbuck rectory burned in 1945, it is difficult to relate the exact history during these and former years.

(Source: Up to Now - A Story of Dufferin and Carman, p 131 [2023/11; Adapted])

This cemetery is located in the southwest corner of the same plot of land shared with the Greenwood Cemetery on Provincial Highway #3, just south of Carman.

Lying to the right as you enter via the south entry road shared with the Greenwood Cemetery, the Catholic cemetery is bordered on the east by an attractive grotto set among fir trees and shrubs. Plots are laid out in north-south rows with graves facing east and west.

(Source: Carman/Dufferin Municipal Heritage Committee [2023/11; Adapted])

Established in 1887.

This is an old cemetery with the first recorded burial being that of James D. Black who died on May 23, 1887. Reflecting the ethnic diversity of the area through the decades, the cemetery contains Anglo-Saxon, French, Polish, and some Ukrainian and Mennonite names.

(Source: Manitoba Genealogical Society [Adapted])

Dominion Land Survey coordinates: LSD05-19-06-04-W1

In the Town of Carman

A part of the town's story and those of its inhabitants from the early days of European settlement through roughly 1967 is told in the volume "Up to Now - A Story of Dufferin and Carman", especially starting on the cited pages. A free digital version of this 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 #0493), transcribed by a member or members in 1989-90 and updated in 1998. 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).

Of note: The St Boniface Historical Society (La Société historique de Saint-Boniface) maintains extensive records of the lives led by and influences of the people in Manitoba who had French ancestry, be it recently from France and Belgium, or by way of Quebec.

Also, the Carman/Dufferin Municipal Heritage Committee offers a list of burials in this cemetery via their website.