Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Hillbank during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Hillbank was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..
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 Hillbank (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 Hillbank. 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.
Cemeteries Near Hillbank ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hillbank.
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 Hillbank covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Hillbank, with the one closest to Hillbank listed first.
- St. John the Baptist Church Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- St. Mary's Anglican Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Mountain View Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Holy Trinity Anglican Church Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- St. Stephen's Anglican Church Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Galiano Island Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Galiano Island Cemetery
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Galiano Island Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
- The Galiano Island Cemetery has also been known as:
- Galiano Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2491107 <2>
- Pender Island Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Royal Oak Burial Park
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Colwood Pioneer Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Hatley Memorial Gardens
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Veteran's Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Ladysmith Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ladysmith Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Ladysmith Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Ladysmith.
- The Ladysmith Cemetery has also been known as:
- Ladysmith Municipal Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2407121 <2>
- Continue List (10 more) ...
- Sooke Harbour Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sooke Harbour Cemetery
- The Sooke Harbour Cemetery has also been known as:
- Saseenos Cemetery
- Sooke Harbour / Saseenos Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2241322 <2>
- Knox Presbyterian Church Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- St. Mary's Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Mary's Cemetery
- 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 Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2459848 <2>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Hillbank. See our List of 1890's Communities around Hillbank.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Hillbank:
- Websites specific to British Columbia
- Cemetery Information and Directories for British Columbia
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Province of British Columbia: https://www.gov.bc.ca/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went north past Hillbank and then turned east". While Hillbank could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Hillbank as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.
Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.
Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.
Also keep in mind that Hillbank could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
Since confusion between is common, we searched and weren't able to find another British Columbia community named Hillbank. |
| <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> | 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. |