Virden Cemetery in Virden, Manitoba - Find a Grave Cemetery

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Get directions Provincial Road 56 North
Virden, Manitoba
R0M 2C0 Canada

Coordinates: 49.82782, -100.94488
virden.ca/p/cemetery
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+1-204-748-2440
Office Address
236 Wellington Street West
Box 310
Virden, Manitoba
R0M 2C0 Canada
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Located on the north side of Provincial Range Road 56 North, about 0.75 miles (1.2 km) east of Hwy 83 or 1/4 mile west of Cemetery Road
A network of roadways provides vehicular access to the grounds.
The Town's website permits consultation of their burial records.

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Owned and managed by the Town of Virden

(Source: Town of Virden website [2023/09)

Established in 1864.

(Source: Manitoba Genealogical Society [Adapted])

This cemetery is located immediately south of Virden. A stone chapel within the cemetery was constructed in 1981. A monument commemorating those who died during military service in the Second World War and Korean War was erected by the Royal Canadian Legion (Virden Branch) in 1982.

Among the noteworthy people buried in its cemetery are the following: Herbert H. Goulter, Finlay C. J. McLeod, and James W. Scallion.

(Source: Manitoba Historical Society [Adapted])

Dominion Land Survey coordinates: LSD02-16-10-26-W1

Located within the Rural Municipality of Wallace-Woodworth, the Town of Souris is its administrative centre

A part of the town's story and those of its inhabitants from the early days of European settlement through roughly 1982 is told in the volume "Anecdotes and Updates 1882-1982 -- Virden Centennial Souvenir", and the related volume "The Virden Story - 1882-1957".

Ffree digital versions of these and many other Manitoba local history books can be found online in the University of Manitoba Digital Collections. There is also a list of such books organized by district and town name on the Manitoba Historical Society's website on their page entitled "Finding Aid: Manitoba Local History Books".

A list of burials in this cemetery is available from the Manitoba Genealogical Society (reference #0468), transcribed by a member or members in 1989 and updated in 1999. Also available to MGS members is a searchable online database named the "MGS Manitoba Name Index" (or MANI). Some additional information is contained in the 1996 MGS publication "Carved in Stone: Manitoba Cemeteries and Burial Sites" (revised edition, Special Projects Publication, 106 pages).