Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Drake (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Drake. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Drake:
- Websites specific to Saskatchewan
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Saskatchewan
Cemeteries Near Drake ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Drake.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Drake covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Drake, with the one closest to Drake listed first.
- Drake Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- North Star Mennonite Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Lanigan Lutheran Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Lanigan Lutheran Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Lanigan.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lanigan Lutheran Cemetery
- Trinity Lutheran Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Trinity Lutheran Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Lanigan.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Trinity Lutheran Cemetery
- Lockwood Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Lockwood Cemetery is located outside and to the southeast of Lockwood.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lockwood Cemetery
- Lanigan Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Lanigan Cemetery is located outside and to the north of Lanigan.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lanigan Cemetery
- Esk Baptist Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Esk Baptist Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Esk.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Esk Baptist Cemetery
- Esk Lutheran Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Esk Lutheran Cemetery is located outside and to the north of Esk.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Esk Lutheran Cemetery
- St. Mary's Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Guernsey Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Boulder Lake Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Jansen Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
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- St. Ignatius / Sinnett Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Ignatius / Sinnett Cemetery is located between<2> the communities of Lanigan and Leroy. The cemetery lies 7 miles [11.3 km]<3> to the northeast of Lanigan.
- The St. Ignatius / Sinnett Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Ignatius Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Ignatius / Sinnett Cemetery
- Sharon Mennonite Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Sharon Mennonite Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sharon Mennonite Cemetery
- Philadelphia Mennonite Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Drake. See our List of 1890's Communities around Drake.
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Drake. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Province of Saskatchewan: www.saskatchewan.ca/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Lanigan and Leroy. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location. |
| <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- Drake) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Drake. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 51.7462, Longitude: -105.0128 |
| <4> | 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. |