"All Saints Church" was located in Bluevale district on the southwest 6-3-20(-W1), the land being donated by Mrs. Sankey. A number of residents of the district had relatives residing in England, who recognizing the need of a church, donated the funds to erect same. Mr. Blackenbar bought the organ and was also the organist.

All Saints Church ten miles Southwest of the Town was erected in 1898, largely through the generosity of friends in England, and was formally opened by the Archbishop. For more than thirty years All Saints served the district, but finally on account of the removal of the majority of the parishioners, it had to be closed and the church which was once a landmark and a centre of community life is but a memory of the past.

(Source: Beckoning Hills, p 79, p 83, [1953; Adapted])

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Established in 1887.

The size of the area is approximately 65 ft by 150 ft (15/6 m by 36.0m) with wild caragana bushes growing there. The dates on the gate read 1887-1937. The sign on the gate reads: "Commemorating All Saints Anglican Church Consecrated May 26 1888". The sign on the fence reads: "All Saints Cemetery 1889-1967 Centennial Project 1970 Wassewa Ladies Group".

(Source: Manitoba Genealogical Society [Adapted])

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This cemetery is on the site of the former All Saints Anglican Church, a wood frame building designed by local resident Arthur Sheppard Barton and built here in the spring of 1888. The church was consecrated by Archbishop Machray at a service on 26 May 1888. The first burial in the adjacent cemetery occurred in 1893. The church closed in 1929 and the building was moved to the Horton district and converted into a private residence. A fence around the cemetery was erected by the Wassewa Ladies Group.

(Source: Manitoba Historical Society [Adapted])

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Dominion Land Survey coordinates: LSD04-06-03-20-W1In the Municipality of Boissevain-Morton

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As noted above, a part of the story of the town and its inhabitants from the early days of European settlement is told in the volume "Beckoning Hills", especially on the cited pages. Other related books include:

- Beckoning Hills Supplement (1956)

- Beckoning Hills Revisited; Ours is a Goodly Heritage 1881-1981

- Beckoning Hills - Dawn of the New Millenium Boissevain-Morton 1981 - 2006

- Deloraine Scans a Century 1880-1980 - A History of Deloraine and District

Digital versions of these books and many other 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 #0212), transcribed by a member or members in 1986 and updated in 2017. 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).

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Additionally, many records for Anglican congregations in Manitoba and over part of the territory designated historically as "Rupert's Land" (esp, as bounded on the south by the U.S. border, extending north into the Manitoba Interlake Region past Fairford, with the western boundary reaching into the Pembina Hills and includes Portage la Prairie, eastward the diocese stretches to Sioux Lookout/Atikokan) are now with the Diocese of Rupert's Land and are kept in their offices in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.