RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> Province of Saskatchewan >> Hitchcock Bay >> Genealogy HelperIndex...
















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 Hitchcock 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 Hitchcock 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 Hitchcock 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 9 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hitchcock Bay.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hitchcock Bay, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hitchcock Bay.

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 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 Hitchcock Bay:

Cemeteries Near Hitchcock Bay ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hitchcock 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 Hitchcock Bay covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Souris Valley Memorial Gardens
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • 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>
  • Snaasen Pioneer Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Macoun Pioneer Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Macoun - Pioneer Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Estevan City Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Macoun Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 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
  • Bethel & St. John's Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Bienfait Civic Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Woodley Cromar Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Woodley Cromar Cemetery is located between<3> 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>
  • Torquay Community Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Benson Sacred Heart RC Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Benson Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (21 more) ...
    • Westphalia Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Westphalia Cemetery is located outside and to the northeast of Midale.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Westphalia Cemetery
    • Taylorton Heritage Cemetery
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Elm Lawn Cemetery
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Hitchcock Bay. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Hitchcock Bay) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hitchcock Bay. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 49.2231, Longitude: -103.1238    
<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>To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Benson and Lampman. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location.









 

Copyright 2024
All Rights Reserved

Thank you for visiting our website.

In closing, please keep in mind that we can not guarantee the accuracy or timeliness of the information on this website, so use with care. We encourage you to double-check the information that is critical to you.

If you've found an error or have additional information that you would like to share, please don't hesitate to write: Click here to contact us.

This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024