This family cemetery overlooks Crystal Creek and has a panoramic view of the prairie landscape north of the town of Crystal City.

It is a Municipal Heritage Site and a Canadian Historic Place (1989/06/20).

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The Thomas Greenway Cemetery is a small exposed site that overlooks cultivated fields and the gently meandering Crystal Creek north of Crystal City. The municipal designation applies to the approximately 1,200-square-metre cemetery, which contains four burials, (the first in 1898) and a pathway about 500 metres long that connects the site to the village.

The Thomas Greenway Cemetery, a family burial site in an open agricultural setting, is the final resting place of Thomas Greenway (1838-1908), premier of Manitoba from 1888 to 1900, whose contributions included reform of the provincial school system, promotion of railway building and settlement, service as minister of agriculture and steps to reorganize provincial politics on a more partisan basis.

Also buried at the site are Thomas's second wife, Emma Essery (1855-1934), and two sons, Harry Harvey (1879-1906) and Thomas A. (1867-98).

(Source: Village of Crystal City By-law No. 9-89, June 20, 1989 and the Canada's Historic Places website [2023/12])

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The Cemetery is located on the original homestead of Thomas Greenway, a Manitoba Premier.

This was a family cemetery named after the Honourable Thomas Greenway who was a Liberal Premier of Manitoba and died in 1908. It is situated on the banks of Crystal Creek on what was Greenway property. The earliest death and burial was one of his sons, Thomas A Greenway, who died on 13 September 1893.

This cemetery was maintained as a private cemetery until the Honourable Thomas's death in 1908, at which time it became a Methodist Church Cemetery.

(Source: Manitoba Genealogical Society [Adapted])

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Dominion Land Survey coordinates: LSD07-25-02-12-W1

In the Rural Municipality of Louise

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A list of burials in this cemetery is available from the Manitoba Genealogical Society (reference #1158), transcribed by a member or members in 1997.

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Additionally, many records for defunct United congregations in Manitoba, and those of the sects that merged to form it, are now kept in their Archives and Records Center in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.