Woodlawn Cemetery (Saskatoon)
Woodlawn Cemetery is a cemetery located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Located in the cemetery is the Next of Kin Memorial Avenue, a National Historic Site of Canada, that is dedicated to all those who served with Canada's armed forces.
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| Established | 1905 |
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| Country |  Canada |
| Coordinates | 52°9′0″N 106°39′20″W / 52.15000°N 106.65556°W |
| Owned by | City of Saskatoon |
| Size | 94 acres (0.38 km2) |
| No. of interments | 63,000+ |
| Website | Official website |
| Find a Grave | Woodlawn Cemetery |
The cemetery was established in 1905 as St. Paul's Roman Catholic Cemetery, with the city taking over responsibility in 1918.[1] Prior to that point in time either the Nutana Pioneer Cemetery in Nutana or the Summerdale Cemetery in the town of Smithville (now annexed into the Blairmore SDA) was used.[1]
The cemetery has been divided into the following sections to specific customs and religious traditions or special affiliations:[2]
- Children
- Infants
- Cremated Remains
- University of Saskatchewan
- Field of Honour (Military)
- Flat Marker
- Upright Monument
- Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'i
- Catholic
- Chinese
- Greek
- Orthodox
- Islamic Ismalian
- Jewish
- Non-Denominational
Block 55 contains the war graves of 107 Commonwealth service personnel of the First and Second World Wars.[3]
Notable burials
edit- William Harvey Clare, mayor of Saskatoon
- James Clinkskill, mayor of Saskatoon
- Gerry Couture, NHL hockey player
- Norman James Boswell Fowler, NHL hockey player
- Lyell Gustin, pianist, music educator, and adjudicator
- John W. Hair, mayor of Saskatoon
- William Hopkins, mayor of Saskatoon
- Malcolm Scarth Halsetter Isbister, mayor of Saskatoon
- James Lloyd Klein, NHL hockey player
- Frank MacMillan, Conservative Politician
- Angus W. MacPherson, mayor of Saskatoon
- Charlie Mason, NHL hockey player
- John Sproule Mills, mayor of Saskatoon
- George Wesley Norman, mayor of Saskatoon
- Robert Pitford Pinder, mayor of Saskatoon
- Herbert Sidney Sears, mayor of Saskatoon
- Richard St. Barbe Baker, environmentalist
- Joseph Edwin Underwood, mayor of Saskatoon
- James Robert Wilson, mayor of Saskatoon
- Russell Wilson, mayor of Saskatoon
- Alexander MacGillivray Young, mayor of Saskatoon, Member of the House of Commons of Canada
- Percy Klaehn, mayor of Saskatoon
- Dmytro Cipywnyk, physician and academic
- Reinhold Tamke, proprietor of Little Chief Service Station and owner of the farm land that became The Willows, Saskatoon
References
edit- ^ a b "Woodland Cemetery – History". City of Saskatoon. Retrieved 2011-02-27.
- ^ "Woodland Cemetery – General Information". City of Saskatoon. Retrieved 2011-02-27.
- ^ [1] CWGC cemetery report.