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 Dunns Valley (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 Dunns Valley. 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.
Name Variations for Dunns Valley ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.
- A typical abbreviation for Dunns Valley: Dunns Vly. (or less commonly used: Dunns Vally. or Dunns Vlly.)
- While the name of this community is Dunns Valley, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Dunns Valley may originally have been Dunn's Valley.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Dunns Valley might be written as Dunn Valley.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
Cemeteries Near Dunns Valley ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dunns Valley.
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 Dunns Valley covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Dunns Valley, with the one closest to Dunns Valley listed first.
- Rock Lake Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Mt. Zion / Sands Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Poplar Dale Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Humphrey Maple Grove Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Humphrey Maple Grove Cemetery
- The Humphrey Maple Grove Cemetery has also been known as:
- Humpheries Cemetery
- Humphery Cemetery
- Humphries Cemetery
- Maple Grove Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2459686 <2>
- Plummer Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Plummer Cemetery
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Plummer Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- The Plummer Cemetery has also been known as:
- Finlaysons Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2403235 <2>
- Cloudslee Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cloudslee Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Cloudslee Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in the vicinity of Cloudslee
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2330249 <2>
- Pine Grove Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Bruce Mines Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bruce Mines Cemetery
- The Bruce Mines Cemetery has also been known as:
- Bruce Mines / Trunk Road Cemetery
- Trunk Road Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2459997 <2>
- Forest Lawn / Thessalon RC Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Forest Lawn / Thessalon RC Cemetery
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Forest Lawn / Thessalon RC Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Aberdeen Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Bruce Mines / Taylor Street Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (21 more) ...
- Bellingham United Church Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Desbarats Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Sylvan Valley Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Dunns Valley. See our List of 1890's Communities around Dunns Valley.
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 Dunns Valley:
- Websites specific to Ontario
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Dunns Valley. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Province of Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Dunns Valley) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Dunns Valley. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.4667, Longitude: -83.6247 |
| <4> | 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. |