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 Cliffside (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 Cliffside. 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.

Newspapers Published in Cliffside ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 7 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cliffside.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cliffside, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cliffside.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Cliffside:

• Websites specific to British Columbia
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search

• Cemetery Information and Directories for British Columbia
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of British Columbia
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of British Columbia
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of British Columbia
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of British Columbia

Cemeteries Near Cliffside ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cliffside.

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 Cliffside covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Cliffside, with the one closest to Cliffside listed first.

• St. John the Baptist Church Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • The St. John the Baptist Church Cemetery has also been known as:
  • St. John The Baptist Anglican Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. John the Baptist Church Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2272045 <2>
• St. Stephen's Anglican Church Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Stephen's Anglican Church Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2363954 <2>
• Holy Trinity Anglican Church Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • The Holy Trinity Anglican Church Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Holy Trinity Anglican Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holy Trinity Anglican Church Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #639356 <2>
• Mountain View Cemetery
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mountain View Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #639366 <2>
• Colwood Pioneer Cemetery
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Colwood Pioneer Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2519234 <2>
• Hatley Memorial Gardens
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • The Hatley Memorial Gardens has also been known as:
  • Colwood Burial Park
  • Colwood Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hatley Memorial Gardens
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #639374 <2>
• St. Mary's Anglican Cemetery
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Mary's Anglican Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2330690 <2>
• Royal Oak Burial Park
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • The Royal Oak Burial Park has also been known as:
  • Royal Oak Burial Park Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Royal Oak Burial Park
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #639349 <2>
• Veteran's Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • The Veteran's Cemetery has also been known as:
  • God's Acre Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Veteran's Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #639365 <2>
• Knox Presbyterian Church Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Knox Presbyterian Church Cemetery
• Sooke Harbour Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • The Sooke Harbour Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Saseenos Cemetery
  • Sooke Harbour / Saseenos Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sooke Harbour Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2241322 <2>
• St. Mary's Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Mary's Cemetery is located in the vicinity of Metchosin
  • The St. Mary's Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Metchosin Pioneer Cemetery
  • St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church Cemetery
  • St. Mary The Virgin Church Yard Cemetery
  • St. Mary The Virgin Churchyard Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Mary's Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2459848 <2>
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  • Muir Family Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Muir Family Cemetery is located in Sooke.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Muir Family Cemetery
  • Sooke Millenium Memorial Park
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sooke Millenium Memorial Park is located in Sooke.
    • The Sooke Millenium Memorial Park has also been known as:
    • Millenium Memorial Park
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sooke Millenium Memorial Park
  • Congregation Emanu-El Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • The Congregation Emanu-El Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Congregation Emanuel Cemetery
    • Jewish Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Congregation Emanu-El Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2513687 <2>

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Cliffside. See our List of 1890's Communities around Cliffside.

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Cliffside. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Province of British Columbia: https://www.gov.bc.ca/