Our Genealogy Helper for Bruce ...
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 Bruce (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 Bruce. 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 begin 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 Bruce:
- 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 Bruce ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bruce.
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 Bruce covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
- Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery
- Holden Cemetery
- Holden Town Cemetery
- St. Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery
- Ryley Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ryley Cemetery
- Ryley Cemetery lies 7 miles [11.3 km]<2> to the northwest of Bruce.
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Ryley Cemetery
- Zion Lutheran Cemetery
- Earling Cemetery
- Skudesness Lutheran Church Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Skudesness Lutheran Church Cemetery
- Skudesness Lutheran Church Cemetery lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<2> to the southwest of Bruce.
- Skudesness Lutheran Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- Skudesness Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Skudesness Lutheran Church Cemetery
- Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2417536<1>
- Trondhjem Cemetery
- Salem Mennonite Church Cemetery
- Lake Demay Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lake Demay Cemetery
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Lake Demay Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
- Lake Demay Cemetery lies 14 miles [22.5 km]<2> to the southwest of Bruce.
- Lake Demay Cemetery has also been known as:
- Lake Demay Burial Grounds
- Lake Demay Lutheran Free Church Cemetery
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Lake Demay Cemetery
- Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2367204<1>
- Round Hill Cemetery
- Continue List (45 more) ...
- Hegre Norwegian Lutheran Church Cemetery
- Bardo Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bardo Cemetery
- Bardo Cemetery lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<2> to the west of Bruce.
- Bardo Cemetery has also been known as:
- Bardo / Zion Lutheran Cemetery
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Bardo Cemetery
- Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2382387<1>
- Transfiguration of Our Lord Ukrainian Catholic Church Cemetery
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Bruce. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bruce.
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Bruce. 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Bruce) to Point B.If you need the driving distance (or directions), we recommend that you use one of the Mapping Services listed on our Map Page for Bruce. Since we usually use Google Maps, we've provided the following link: Google Map and Driving Directions starting from BruceOur distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bruce. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 53.2361, Longitude: -112.2702 |
| <3> | 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. |