The cemetery is managed by the Congregation Etz Chayim [2023/10].

It was founded in 1911 by the Hebrew Sick Benefit Association of Winnipeg, which had been established five years earlier as a loan society and social group. Located in the Old Kildonan neighbourhood, it is one of six Jewish cemeteries in the city.

In keeping with Jewish tradition, women and men are not buried next to one another unless they are close family members or spouses. The cemetery also has unmarked plots for the burial of genizah (i.e., a storage area designated for the temporary storage of worn-out Hebrew-language books and papers on religious topics prior to proper cemetery burial).

Hebrew Sick Benefit Cemetery is one of nine Jewish cemeteries in the Province of Manitoba to be documented by volunteers in a 15-year project that began in 1996. Under the auspices of the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada, the project aimed to create a photographic record of every Jewish gravestone in the province, with a corresponding database.

In September 1946, a memorial to Jewish servicemen killed in World War II was dedicated in the parking lot of the cemetery. The stone monument was engraved with the names of 63 Jewish members from all three military services. The memorial was commissioned by the Hebrew Sick Benefit Society and unveiled by Roland Fairbairn McWilliams, Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba, in a ceremony that attracted more than 500 attendees.

(Source: Wikipedia [2023/10; Adapted])

Dominion Land Survey coordinates: LSD13-28-11-03-E1

In the historic Old Kildonan neighbourhood of what is referred to as Greater Winnipeg since the amalgamation of 22 former municipal bodies

A list of burials in this cemetery is available from the Manitoba Genealogical Society (reference #nnnn), transcribed by a member or members in 1996. Also available to MGS members is a searchable online database named the "MGS Manitoba Name Index" (or MANI). Some additional information may be contained in the 1996 MGS publication "Carved in Stone: Manitoba Cemeteries and Burial Sites" (revised edition, Special Projects Publication, 106 pages).

Additionally, as a result of the project mentioned above, the non-profit Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada centralizes, curates and makes available extensive records from various groups related to the communities established by the families of their faith who contributed to the story of Western Canada.