Legal Land Description: NW 10-50-27-W5
Yellowhead County

The Brûlé Cemetery is located at the base of the Boule Mountain Range, just beyond the hamlet of Brûlé. It is 827 m south of the intersection of Mountain Road and 52 Street in Brûlé, and the latter half of the distance to the cemetery is on a dirt trail through the bush.

Brûlé began as a mining community in 1914 when MacKenzie and Mann initiated mining operations to supply coal for the locomotives on their Canadian Northern Railway. At that time the railway was being built through the Yellowhead Pass to reach the Pacific Ocean.

Brûlé operated as a mining town throughout the 1920's, but that was not the only industry in the area at that time. Railway workers, Jasper Forest Park wardens, loggers, trappers, and outfitters lived in and operated from the Brûlé area. In 1930, with the creation of Jasper National Park, Brûlé was removed from what had been the Jasper Forest Park, because of possible future mining operations. Although Brûlé would never again never reach the population it had during the mining boom era, families have continued to reside here, and it has become a small bedroom community of Hinton.

Burials marked within the Brûlé Cemetery took place over a 25-year period between 1921 to 1946. The original site for the cemetery, submitted in 1918, was over 8 acres - extending beyond the current fence boundary in both south and west directions. This was during the start of Spanish Flu epidemic, and a time when a cemetery would have been greatly needed. Deaths as a result of mine accidents are recorded as early as 1916.

Over time the cemetery had deteriorated. The forest encroached on the original cemetery site, and each spring, melt waters from the mountains above flowed through the cemetery. The cemetery became overgrown and difficult to maintain.

Between 2013 and 2015, the Brûlé Cemetery Project, headed by Gordon Groat, worked on site restoration and historical recognition. Efforts were made to have markers made for all those buried there, although some markers were illegible, and are still 'Unknown'.

Burials are no longer permitted in the Brûlé Cemetery, but a few long-time and early residents of the hamlet have laid the ashes of their loved ones here.