Established in 1911.

(Source: Manitoba Genealogical Society)

Beside this cemetery on Red River Drive on what was originally part of River Lot 53, was once the St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church.

The first church building was built between 1907 and 1908, and the first burial in the cemetery occurred in 1911. A second church was constructed in 1950 or 1951, and the original church was converted into a parish hall. In the early 1960s, a third and final church was constructed beside the earlier one, the second church was dismantled, and the third building was moved onto its foundation, while the original church was sold and removed from the site.

Badly damaged in a flood in 1997, the third church was restored and continued until declining use caused its closure in 2007. A final mass in August 2013 preceded its removal to Oakbank in December 2013.

(Source: Manitoba Historical Society [Adapted])

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Dominion Land Survey coordinates: LSD02-09-09-03-E1

In the Rural Municipality of Ritchot

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A list of burials in this cemetery is available from the Manitoba Genealogical Society (reference #0123), transcribed by a member or members in 1984 and updated in 1998 and again in 2012. 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, the Ogniwo Polish Museum centralizes, curates and makes available extensive records from various groups related to the communities established by the families of Polish descent who settled, lived in, died in, or contributed to the story of Manitoba.

• As well, many records for defunct Roman Catholic congregations under its auspices in Manitoba are now kept in the Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Winnipeg.