Cemeteries

A visit to the well-maintained Bluejay - Charron Community Cemetery northeast of Atmore, Alberta.

St. Anthony of Padua Church and Cemetery are located southwest of Medicine Hat, Alberta. The church has fallen into disrepair and seems to stand as a symbol of a past reality now fading.

A visit to Aetna, a hamlet in Cardston County, Alberta.

Prospy Cemetery was generally unkept with graves markers lightly scattered across the small enclosure. Despite that, one grave marker in particular caught my eye.

Seven Persons is a hamlet in Cypress County, Alberta about 20 km southwest of Medicine Hat. There are various stories about how the hamlet got it’s name.

Hillcrest Cemetery is memorable partly because of the location and partly because of the mine disaster of 1914 that took so many lives.

Located in a large plot on the side of a long, sloping hill, I happened to visit Monitor Cemetery when the surrounding crops were in full bloom, justaposing new life with inevitable death.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery lies 32 kms northeast of the town of Athabasca, Alberta and serves the Spruce Valley district.

St. Demetrius Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Jaroslaw) is a compact structure which stands near a well-kept cemetery.

This church is one of the earlier examples of an “open-dome” cruciform church: a large, single central dome is built on an octagonal base