Cemetery Index: Waskatenau Old-Timer's (All Saints) Cemetery - Smoky Lake

Contributed for use in Alberta Digital Archives by Kenneth Scott.

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Waskatenau Old-Timer's (All Saints) Cemetery

The Waskatenau Old-Timer's Cemetery is located at 54 degrees 03.917 minutes North 112 degrees 45.053 minutes West. You can get to the cemetery by driving south to the end of the main street at Waskatenau (off highway 28) and turning left (east). Proceed one and one half miles east and one and one half miles right (south) of Waskatenau (past the Pine Creek Cemetery on the left). The cemetery is located on the right.

The cemetery was established as early as 1908 if we can judge by the grave of Sidney Mackay. It appears to have become the Anglican Cemetery upon the creation of an Anglican Church in Waskatenau known as All Saints. Originally Waskatenau had a United Church established in 19XX. In 1928(?) an endowment from an estate in England was used by the Anglican Bishop of Edmonton to create the All Saints Church in Waskatenau.

The cemetery was neglected for many years but in recent years has been restored through efforts coordinated by Mr. Elmer Carefoot of Waskatenau.

This page contains links to photographs of the cemetery, headstones and the entries to the register of burials that have occurred there.

The Cemetery Site Photos

	On the left is the sign at the entrance to the cemetery. The two photographs below give a view of the left and right sides of the cemetary respectively when viewed from just inside the gate.

Headstone Photos

This selection of photos covers all of the headstones which had legible inscriptions. There are a number of other (generally irregularly shaped) stones, which likely indicate other graves, which are not included in this collection.

Name	Dates	Inscription	Burial Registry Entry
Ramsay Gourlay	1885 - 1954	Father	Ramsay Gourlay
Helen Gourlay	1885 - 1959	Mother
David Gourlay	1928 - 1940	Son	David Gourlay
Mary Louise McRoberts	1861 - 1944	In Loving Memory of She lives with us in Memory	Mary Louise McRoberts
McRoberts	none	none
William Brewer Farnham	1858 - 1932	IN LOVING MEMORY OF Rev. WILLIAM BREWER FARNHAM PIONEER RECTOR OF PINE CREEK ANGLICAN CHURCH BORN MARCH 15 1858 DIED JULY 14 1932	Rev. William Brewer Farnham
John Smith	1866 - 1914	Beloved one
Emily Whitson	1885 - 1930	GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN	Emily Whitson
Henry	1879 - 1965 1876 - 1944	Francis J. Susan E.	Francis Jack Henry Susie Elizabeth Henry
William Warr Watt		LOVING HUSBAND AND FATHER AT REST	William Warr Watt
Sidney Mackay	1905 - 1908	IN LOVING MEMORY OF SIDNEY SON OF W.J. & MAUDE MACKAY BORN MAY 1 1905 DIED SEPT. 13 1908 Their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven
Asher Henry Warr	1885 - 1939	IN LOVING MEMORY OF ASHER HENRY WARR 1885 - 1939 AT REST	Asher Henry Warr

Burial Register Photos

Note: The burial register is known to be incomplete. The register is currently in the possession of Mr. Leonard Scott of Waskatenau.

Cover Page
The cover of the burial register identifies the cemetery as the Pine Creek cemetery. Inside the register the cemetery is identified as that of All Saints, the Anglican Church in Waskatenau. Another cemetery known as the Pine Creek Cemetery (established in 1913) is located about 1/2 mile north and on the other side of the road from the Old Timer's cemetery. The burials registered in this book are all in the Old Timer's cemetery.

Burial Entries:

It was intended that each burial be entered in the register. It also seems that on a quarterly basis the burials were reported to a provincial office. The first burial recorded was in 1930 and the last in 1965. Only those pages which had burial entries were photographed. There were other pages that indicated nil burials in particular quarters. There were also many many years/quarters for which no entries are made. It is known that many burials were not recorded in this register.

Name	Sex	Residence of Deceased	Date of Interment	Location of Grave	Burial Permit Issued by
Emily Whitson	F	Waskatenau	5 June 1930		L.A. Ulsraw, B.A.
(Mrs.) Rita Bragge	F	Sprucefield, Waskatenau	6 June 1931		C.A. Edie, Waskatenau
Rev. William Brewer Farnham	M	Waskatenau	15 July 1932		C.A. Edie
Lanthi. Lygli Rouha Olida		Waskatenau	9 May 1936		C.A. Edie
William Warr Watt	M	Waskatenau	25 Mar 1937		R.E. Harrison, Lamont
Annie Helen Bibby	F	Waskatenau	6 Mar 1939		C.A. Edie, Waskateanu
Asher Henry Warr	M	Waskatenau	16 May 1939		C.A. Edie, Waskatenau
Jane Dyson	F	Waskatenau	19 May 1940		C.A. Edie, Waskatenau
Victoria Mortson	F	Waskatenau	4 November 1940	Lot 1 Block VIII	C.A. Edie
David Gourlay	M	Warspite	12 October 1940	Lot 8 Block I	C.A. Edie
Frederick Granger Cockroft	M	Waskatenau	5 March 1941		C.A. Edie, Waskatenau
Marjorie Mortson	F		11 September 1942	Lot 2 Block VIII
Mary Louise McRoberts	F	Waskatenau	29 January 1944	Lot 1 Block I	Thelma Tanner, Waskatenau
Susie Elizabeth Henry	F	Waskatenau	5 April 1944	(not surveyed) West of Drive on road between Lot 1 Block I	Thelma Tanner, Waskatenau
Ramsay Gourlay	M	Waskatenau	17 May 1944	Lot 5 & 6 Block 2	Elsie Scott 1954
Francis Jack Henry	M	Innisfail	22 September 1965

Acknowledgements:

Access to the burial register for the cemetery was granted by Mr. Leonard Scott. Mr. Elmer Carefoot has done much of the restoration of the cemetery which allowed the cemetery photographs to be easily taken.

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