Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Strawberry Hill during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Strawberry Hill 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 Strawberry Hill (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 Strawberry Hill. 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 Strawberry Hill ...
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 Strawberry Hill.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Strawberry Hill, there are papers which were published within 11 miles [17.7 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Strawberry Hill.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Strawberry Hill:
- Websites specific to British Columbia
- Cemetery Information and Directories for British Columbia
Cemeteries Near Strawberry Hill ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Strawberry Hill.
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 Strawberry Hill covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Strawberry Hill, with the one closest to Strawberry Hill listed first.
- Valley View Memorial Gardens
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Surrey Centre Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Surrey Centre Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Cloverdale.
- The Surrey Centre Cemetery has also been known as:
- Christ Church Cemetery
- Surrey City Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Surrey Centre Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2098350 <3>
- Schara Tzedeck Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Beth Tikvah Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Beth Tikvah Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<2> to the north of Surrey.
- The Beth Tikvah Cemetery has also been known as:
- Beth Tikvah Jewish Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beth Tikvah Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2443242 <3>
- Sunnyside Lawn Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Temple Sholom Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Temple Sholom Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<2> to the north of Surrey.
- The Temple Sholom Cemetery has also been known as:
- Temple Shalom Cemetery
- Temple Shalom Jewish Cemetery
- Temple Sholom Jewish Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Temple Sholom Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2388552 <3>
- Victory Memorial Park
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Victory Memorial Park is a very large cemetery that is located 5 miles [8 km]<2> to the north of Surrey.
- The Victory Memorial Park has also been known as:
- Veterans Memorial Park
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Victory Memorial Park
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2226367 <3>
- Gardens of Gethsemani Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Fraser Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- St. Peters Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Peters Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in New Westminster.
- The St. Peters Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Peters RC Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Peters Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2257245 <3>
- Robinson Memorial Park
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- The Robinson Memorial Park has also been known as:
- Coquitlam Municipal Cemetery
- Robinson Memorial Park / Coquitlam Municipal Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Robinson Memorial Park
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2236961 <3>
- Ocean View Burial Park
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (37 more) ...
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a very large cemetery that is located in Burnaby.
- The Forest Lawn Memorial Park has also been known as:
- Forest Lawn Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1968306 <3>
- Beth Israel Cemetery & Memorial Garden
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Masonic Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Strawberry Hill. See our List of 1890's Communities around Strawberry Hill.
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 Strawberry Hill and then turned west". While Strawberry Hill could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Strawberry Hill 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 Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller 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 Strawberry Hill 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 Strawberry Hill. |
| <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- Strawberry Hill) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Strawberry Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 49.1333, Longitude: -122.8833 |
| <3> | 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. |