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 Sturdies Bay (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 Sturdies Bay. 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 Sturdies Bay ...
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 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sturdies Bay.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sturdies Bay, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sturdies Bay.
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 helpful 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 Sturdies Bay:
- Websites specific to British Columbia
- Cemetery Information and Directories for British Columbia
Cemeteries Near Sturdies Bay ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sturdies Bay.
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 Sturdies Bay covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Sturdies Bay, with the one closest to Sturdies Bay listed first.
- Galiano Island Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- 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.<2>
- The Galiano Island Cemetery has also been known as:
- Galiano Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Galiano Island Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2491107 <3>
- Pender Island Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Boundary Bay Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Holy Trinity Anglican Church Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- St. John the Baptist Church Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Mountain View Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- St. Mary's Anglican Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- St. Stephen's Anglican Church Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Woodlawn Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Woodlawn Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Woodlawn Cemetery
- Ladysmith Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- 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 our Gazetteer entry for the Ladysmith Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2407121 <3>
- Beth Tikvah Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Beth Tikvah Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<1> 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
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (24 more) ...
- Temple Sholom Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Temple Sholom Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<1> 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
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Victory Memorial Park is a very large cemetery that is located 5 miles [8 km]<1> 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>
- Royal Oak Burial Park
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Sturdies Bay. See our List of 1890's Communities around Sturdies Bay.
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Sturdies Bay. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Province of British Columbia: https://www.gov.bc.ca/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Sturdies Bay) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sturdies Bay. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.8833, Longitude: -123.3167 |
| <2> | 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. |
| <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. |
| <4> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |