Monitor Cemetery

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The local residents of Beaver Lake originally constructed St. Jacob’s Church (now known as St. James) in 1901-02. The church was renovated and placed on a concrete foundation in 1942 and is one of the oldest churches in Lamont County. (Source) If this church is one of the oldest in the county, you certainly wouldn’t…
St. Laurence Anglican Church is located in the hamlet of Monitor, Alberta. Constructed in 1915, it is registered in the Canadian Register of Historic Places. It’s been home to the local Anglican parish for over a century, but at times was also the meeting place for Methodist and Lutheran congregations and served as the hamlet’s…
Built in 1900 after three years of labour, this church has the distinction of being the oldest original church in Lamont county. Later, the land the church and cemetery were built on was purchased from the CPR over a six year period from 1903 to 1909. In 1922 the nearby bell tower was built and…
Without the Orthodox cross mounted high on the steeple of this church, this church could pass for a United Church. That’s because it originally was a United Church. As the “Lamont County’s Self-Guided Church Tours” booklet explains, a number of local people became disenchanted with the Catholic Church I the area and in 1925 started…
After arriving in the Wostok area in 1896 Polish settlers began work on a log chapel in 1900, completing it in 1905. A few years later a church bell was purchased and a belfry built to house it. Work started on a new church in 1914 and was completed the next year. And in a…
Hillcrest Cemetery is located in Hillcrest, Alberta (also known as Hillcrest Mines), and is a large sprawling place. The images below don’t do justice to the number nor the variety of different types of grave sites in cemetery. The event that naturally overshadows one’s visit is the Hillcrest Mine disaster which occurred on Friday June…