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A visit to the Mountain Park Cemetery ...


We aren't confident of the location of the Mountain Park Cemetery, so consider the above location as an estimate.<1>


Introduction ...

Since our focus is on geography, we don't have burial or interment information. Nor do we have any contact information for the Mountain Park Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <2> website: The Mountain Park Cemetery (FG ID #2403502)

Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. Without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery was actually buried elsewhere.

We discovered that his burial had been refused at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.

Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.

The Location of the Mountain Park Cemetery ...

Note: The GPS location that we are using for the Mountain Park Cemetery has been estimated.

We are using the following GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) for the Mountain Park Cemetery

Lat:   52.9271°   (52° 55' 37")

Lon:   -117.2711°   (-117° 16' 15")

Location using the Alberta Township System:

NE-33-045-23-W5    (Quarter-Section-Township-Range-Meridian)

Or the Northeast Quarter of Section 33, Township 045, Range 23, West of the 5th Meridian

Establishment of the Mountain Park Cemetery ...

The Mountain Park Cemetery was:

Websites to help with your research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their websites are open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the Mountain Park Cemetery:

  • Pages specific to Alberta:
  • Cemetery Information and Directories:
  • About the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church ...
    • Although we don't have a link to the Mountain Park Cemetery itself, you might be curious about the African Methodist Episcopal Church. See their website at:
    • The African Methodist Episcopal Church
  • List of neighboring communities ...

    The following 6 communities are within 20 miles [32.2 km]<3> of the Mountain Park Cemetery.

    We've listed the following communities based on their distance from Mountain Park Cemetery, with the nearest first.

    • Mountain Park ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Mountain Park. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Park
    • Cadomin
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cadomin
    • Luscar
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luscar
    • Mercoal
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mercoal
    • Coalspur
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coalspur
      • Coalspur has also been known as:
      • Coalspar
    • Robb
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robb

    For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.

    Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...

    Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.

    We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the Mountain Park Cemetery:

    • Referenced Find-A-Grave Entry:  #2403502
    • Referenced Books / Documents ...
    • Alberta Sources - Cemeteries and other surname sources (Feb. 2007)
      • Written by: Alberta Genealogical Society and other researchers, societies and groups

    The official website for Province of Alberta: https://www.alberta.ca/

    Footnotes ...

    <1>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
    <2>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
    <3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the Mountain Park Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 52.9271, Longitude: -117.2711    









 

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