Birchwood Cemetery
Also known as Swan River Cemetery
Swan River, Swan River Census Division, Manitoba, Canada
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Office Address
439 Main Street
P.O. Box 879
Swan River, Manitoba
R0L 1Z0 Canada - Cemetery ID:
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Additional information
Located about 0.6 miles (1 km) north of the Swan River town centre on the east side of 4th Avenue (aka Provincial Highway 10A)
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The park-like grounds provide for lawn burials and include a columbarium as well as a War Memorial.
Dominion Land Survey coordinates: LSD13-21-36-27-W1
The town of Swan River is the administrative centre for the Rural Municipality of Swan Valley which surrounds it.
A part of the town's story and those of its inhabitants from the early days of European settlement through roughly 2000 is told in the volume "A Centennial Chronicle, Historic Happenings in the Swan River Valley" and in a simlar volumes entitled "Between the Hills - Life in the Swan River Valley 1787 - 1958"and "100 Years in the Swan River Valley".
Free 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".
The Town of Swan River owns and the Public Works Department manages the Birchwood Cemetery.
The park-like grounds provide for lawn burials and include a columbarium as well as a War Memorial.
Dominion Land Survey coordinates: LSD13-21-36-27-W1
The town of Swan River is the administrative centre for the Rural Municipality of Swan Valley which surrounds it.
A part of the town's story and those of its inhabitants from the early days of European settlement through roughly 2000 is told in the volume "A Centennial Chronicle, Historic Happenings in the Swan River Valley" and in a simlar volumes entitled "Between the Hills - Life in the Swan River Valley 1787 - 1958"and "100 Years in the Swan River Valley".
Free 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".
The Town of Swan River owns and the Public Works Department manages the Birchwood Cemetery.
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- Added: 16 Mar 2006
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2169831
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