During various floods affecting the town, particularly the events of 1950 and 1966, the creation of dikes and the resulting diversion of the course of the nearby Red River apparently destroyed many graves near the church. There remains no public record of these individuals.

Heritage Saint-Norbert members painstakingly searched the church records to find their names so that a cairn could be erected in their memory. The Cairn is now complete and contains the names of over eleven hundred persons who were buried here but their graves were lost. A booklet listing their names was also produced.

(Source: Heritage Saint-Norbert website [2023/10])

Established in 1890. This parish was formed in 1859 and early graves were placed around the church, on the river bank. Repeated flooding made burials around the church impractical and after the 1950 flood, the original churchyard was grassed over. There are no tombstones there now.

The earliest tombstones in the present cemetery date from the 1890s.

(Source: Manitoba Genealogical Society [Adapted])

This cemetery along Avenue Sainte Therese in the St. Norbert area in the south end of Greater Winnipeg (also) contains a cenotaph memorial to soldiers from the local area who were killed during service in the First World War.

Source: Manitoba Historical Society [Adapted])

The cemetery contains the graves of many notable French-speaking Manitobans of European, Metis, and pre-Canadian origins. Among the notables, all "Memorable Manitobans" per the Mantioba Historical Society, are: Joseph Octave Lemay (1829 - 1892), Louis-Misael Bougret dit Dufort (1848-1914), Martin Jerome (1849 - 1936), Fortunat Lachance (1877-1924), Aurelius Celestin Joyal (1893-1958), and Jeanne Marie Marguerite Lemaire Perreault (1918 - 2008).

Dominion Land Survey coordinates: LSD09-20-09-03-E1

In the historic Saint-Norbert neighbourhood of Greater Winnipeg

A part of the town's story and those of its inhabitants from the early days of European settlement through roughly 1996 is told in the volume "St Norbert". A free digital version of this and many other Manitoba local history books 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 #0125), transcribed by a member or members in 1980 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).

The St Boniface Historical Society maintains extensive records of the lives led by and influences of the people in Manitoba who had French ancestry, be it recently from France and Belgium, or by way of Quebec.