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 Estevan (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 Estevan. 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 Estevan ...

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 12 newspapers that have been published in the area around Estevan.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Estevan, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Estevan.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Estevan:

• Websites specific to Saskatchewan
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search

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

Cemeteries Near Estevan ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Estevan.

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

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

• Estevan City Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • The Estevan City Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Estevan Civic Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Estevan City Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2154883 <2>
• Souris Valley Memorial Gardens
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Souris Valley Memorial Gardens is a large cemetery that is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<1> to the southeast of Estevan.
  • The Souris Valley Memorial Gardens has also been known as:
  • Estevan Memorial Gardens
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Souris Valley Memorial Gardens
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2185746 <2>
• Bienfait Civic Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Bienfait Civic Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Bienfait.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bienfait Civic Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2181797 <2>
• Snaasen Pioneer Cemetery
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Snaasen Pioneer Cemetery
• Taylorton Heritage Cemetery
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Taylorton Heritage Cemetery
• Macoun Pioneer Cemetery
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Macoun Pioneer Cemetery
• Macoun - Pioneer Cemetery
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Macoun - Pioneer Cemetery
• Bethel & St. John's Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bethel & St. John's Cemetery
• Pleasant Prairie Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • The Pleasant Prairie Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Pleasant Prairie Lutheran Church Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pleasant Prairie Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1963815 <2>
• Hirsch Community Jewish Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hirsch Community Jewish Cemetery
• Coalfield Cemetery
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Coalfield Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Noonan (ND).
  • The Coalfield Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Wilson Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Coalfield Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2462230 <2>
• Short Creek Cemetery
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Short Creek Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2183768 <2>
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  • Macoun Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Macoun Cemetery is located outside and to the northeast of Macoun.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Macoun Cemetery
  • Columbus Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Columbus Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Columbus Cemetery
  • Woodley Cromar Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Woodley Cromar Cemetery is located between<4> the communities of Benson and Lampman.  The cemetery lies 6 miles [9.7 km]<1> to the west of Lampman.
    • The Woodley Cromar Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Sacred Heart Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Woodley Cromar Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2457652 <2>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Estevan: www.cap.estevan.sk.ca/

The official website for Province of Saskatchewan: www.saskatchewan.ca/