Durban Cemetery
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Durban Cemetery

Also known as Durban Community Cemetery

Durban, Swan River Census Division, Manitoba, Canada

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  • Get directions 203900 Provincial Road 116W
    Durban, RM of Swan Valley West, Manitoba
    R0L 0P0 Canada
    Coordinates: 51.93639, -101.38866
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  • +1-204-734-3344

  • Office Address

    RM of Swan Valley West Office
    216 Main Street West
    PO Box 610
    Swan River, Manitoba
    R0L 1Z0 Canada
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    Located WNW of the town of Durban MB, about 0.25 miles (0.4 km) south of Provincial Trunk Highway 83 on the west side of Provincial Road 116W

    There is no network of improved roadways providing vehicular access to the grounds.

    For queries about burials in this cemetery, the current caretakers of the site can be reached using the information on the RM of Swan Valley West website

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The entrance to the cemetery is unsigned.

There are a number of unmarked graves in this cemetery. There are 4 sections to the cemetery as per plan and plots are numbered with plot number 1 always being in the upper left-hand (i.e., NE) corner of each section. Section 3 is not in use while Section 1 and Section 2 are laid out with 54 plots each. Section 4 is labelled Greek Orthodox and it appears that only plots 1 to 7 are in use.

In the centre of the cemetery, there is a War Memorial erected in 1920 by the Women's Institute and it has the names of the war dead for World War I & II (later addition) inscribed on it.

(Source: Manitoba Genealogical Society [Adapted and circa 1989])

Dominion Land Survey coordinates: LSD16-20-34-28-W1

In the Rural Municipality of Swan Valley West

A part of the story of the town and its inhabitants from the early days of European settlement through roughly 1986 is told in the volume "Durban". A free digital version of this 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, as transcribed by members in 1989. Also available to MGS members is a searchable online database named the MGS Manitoba Name Index (or MANI).

The entrance to the cemetery is unsigned.

There are a number of unmarked graves in this cemetery. There are 4 sections to the cemetery as per plan and plots are numbered with plot number 1 always being in the upper left-hand (i.e., NE) corner of each section. Section 3 is not in use while Section 1 and Section 2 are laid out with 54 plots each. Section 4 is labelled Greek Orthodox and it appears that only plots 1 to 7 are in use.

In the centre of the cemetery, there is a War Memorial erected in 1920 by the Women's Institute and it has the names of the war dead for World War I & II (later addition) inscribed on it.

(Source: Manitoba Genealogical Society [Adapted and circa 1989])

Dominion Land Survey coordinates: LSD16-20-34-28-W1

In the Rural Municipality of Swan Valley West

A part of the story of the town and its inhabitants from the early days of European settlement through roughly 1986 is told in the volume "Durban". A free digital version of this 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, as transcribed by members in 1989. Also available to MGS members is a searchable online database named the MGS Manitoba Name Index (or MANI).

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