St. Patrick's Cemetery
City of Lethbridge

[New signage installed October 2013]

Oldest Cemetery in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Located at the West End of 6th Avenue North St. Patrick's Cemetery built in December of 1886 is located on the north side of the City with access at 6th Avenue and Stafford Drive adjacent to Dave Elton Park.

In the early days, the cemetery was known as the Miners' Cemetery and the Pioneer Cemetery and was divided into three sections: a Roman Catholic section on the west, a Protestant section on the east and a Chinese section on the south east.

Interment records are not complete as they were completely destroyed in a church fire in the early 1950's and many families could not afford to place a headstone when there was a burial. The interment records that are able to access are provided courtesy of the Alberta Genealogical Society Lethbridge Branch based solely on headstones already in place before the fire.

The Alberta Genealogical Society Lethbridge Branch continues to work on transcribing old church records and may be able to at least provide names of relatives buried in the cemetery that the City of Lethbridge records do not show even though there is no exact grave location.
[gleaned from the City of Lethbridge website]

1885 - 1910
In Memoriam
In Memory of those who were laid to rest in this cemetery prior to 1910 A.D.
Erected by Lethbridge and District Old Timers Pemmican Club
Assisted by Room 21 Hamilton Junior High School June 1961

[side 1 facing East]

U.M.W. of A. DISTRICT 18
Unity in Strength

Erected By
The Coalhurst Miners Union
In Memory Of Our Comrades
Who Lost Their Lives In
THE COALHURST MINE
EXPLOSION
DECEMBER 9TH 1935
ANDREW PROKOP
LEO GOSSUL
EVARISTO ROTA
ANGELO ERMACORA
ALBINA SIMEONI

[The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA)]
[The double-sided Memorial located in the centre of where the ten of the sixteen men are buried. Five names are engraved on the West/East side of the Memorial.
Individual headstones are on West/East side of Memorial where the men are buried]

[side 2 facing West]

U.M.W. of A. DISTRICT 18
Unity in Strength

Erected By
The Coalhurst Miners Union
In Memory Of Our Comrades
Who Lost Their Lives In
THE COALHURST MINE
EXPLOSION
DECEMBER 9TH 1935
LOUIS GRESL
ANATHONY GRESL
FRITZ GRESL
MIKE KADILAK
JOHN SAROG

[The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA)]
[The double-sided Memorial located in the centre of where the ten of the sixteen men are buried. Five names are engraved on the West/East side of the Memorial.
Individual headstones are on West/East side of Memorial where the men are buried]

CHINESE CEMETERY
Saint Patrick's Cemetery
525 6th Avenue North

St. Patrick's Cemetery built in December of 1886 is located on the north side of the City with access at 6th Avenue and Stafford Drive adjacent to Dave Elton Park.

This cemetery was referred to as the Miners' Cemetery and the Pioneer Cemetery in the early days and was divided into three sections: a Roman Catholic section on the west, a Protestant section on the east and a Chinese section on the south east.

The interment records for this cemetery were completely destroyed in a church fire in the early 1950's. Today the interment records we are able to access were provided courtesy of the Alberta Genealogical Society Lethbridge Branch based solely on headstones already in place before the fire so are incomplete in many cases as families could not always afford to place a monument."