Our Genealogy Helper for Bowness ...
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 Bowness (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 Bowness. 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 professional and volunteer websites 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 Bowness:
- Websites specific to Alberta
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Alberta
- Of Special Interest ...
- The GenDisasters website specializes in newspaper articles about tragedies and disasters. While it makes interesting reading all by itself, it should be of special interest to genealogists and family historians looking for people who were either affected by or directly involved in such tragedies.
- At this time (Dec 2022), GenDisasters website is currently offline due to a hacker attack. Hopefully they will be back soon.
- Stories from Alberta
Cemeteries Near Bowness ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bowness.
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 Bowness covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
- St. Barnabas Anglican Church Cemetery
- Queen's Park Cemetery
- Eden Brook Memorial Gardens
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Eden Brook Memorial Gardens
- The Eden Brook Memorial Gardens is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the west of Calgary.
- Eden Brook Memorial Gardens has also been known as:
- Holy Family Catholic Cemetery
- Holy Family Cemetery
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Eden Brook Memorial Gardens
- Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1035052<1>
- St. Mary's Pioneer Cemetery
- St. Marys Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Marys Cemetery
- St. Marys Cemetery lies 6 miles [9.7 km]<2> to the southeast of Bowness.
- St. Marys Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Marys Catholic Cemetery
- Jump to Google Maps centered on St. Marys Cemetery
- Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2149969<1>
- St. Mary's Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Mary's Cemetery
- The St. Mary's Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Calgary.To be more precise, St. Mary's Cemetery lies 6 miles [9.7 km]<2> to the southeast of Bowness.
- Jump to Google Maps centered on St. Mary's Cemetery
- Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2149969<1>
- St. Mary's Pioneer Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Mary's Pioneer Cemetery
- The St. Mary's Pioneer Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Calgary.More accurately, St. Mary's Pioneer Cemetery lies 6 miles [9.7 km]<2> to the southeast of Bowness.
- St. Mary's Pioneer Cemetery has also been known as:
- Roman Catholic (RC) Cemetery
- Jump to Google Maps centered on St. Mary's Pioneer Cemetery
- Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2236429<1>
- Chinese Cemetery
- Burnsland Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Burnsland Cemetery
- The Burnsland Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Calgary.To be more accurate, Burnsland Cemetery lies 6 miles [9.7 km]<2> to the southeast of Bowness.
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Burnsland Cemetery
- Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1981495<1>
- Jewish Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Jewish Cemetery
- The Jewish Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Calgary.Jewish Cemetery lies 6 miles [9.7 km]<2> to the southeast of Bowness.
- Jewish Cemetery has also been known as:
- Calgary Jewish Cemetery
- Erlton Jewish Cemetery
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Jewish Cemetery
- Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2172228<1>
- Union Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Union Cemetery
- The Union Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Calgary.More precisely, Union Cemetery lies 6 miles [9.7 km]<2> to the southeast of Bowness.
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Union Cemetery
- Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1804353<1>
- Springbank United Church Cemetery
- Continue List (25 more) ...
- Mountain View Memorial Gardens
- Rocky View Garden of Peace Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rocky View Garden of Peace Cemetery
- Rocky View Garden of Peace Cemetery lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<2> to the east of Bowness.
- Rocky View Garden of Peace Cemetery has also been known as:
- Garden of Peace Cemetery
- Rockyview Garden of Peace Cemetery
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Rocky View Garden of Peace Cemetery
- Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2131236<1>
- Chevra Kadisha Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chevra Kadisha Cemetery
- The Chevra Kadisha Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Calgary.More precisely, Chevra Kadisha Cemetery lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<2> to the south of Bowness.
- Chevra Kadisha Cemetery has also been known as:
- 37th Street Cemetery
- Jewish Cemetery
- Jewish Memorial Chapel Cemetery
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Chevra Kadisha Cemetery
- Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2263707<1>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Bowness. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bowness.
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Bowness. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Province of Alberta: https://www.alberta.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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Bowness) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bowness. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 51.0833, Longitude: -114.1667 |