Gunton village is situated on the north central part of Greenwood Township. It originated after the stone quarries opened up at that point. The land where the stone quarries are was the original homesteads of Geo. Clifford, John Develin and Hector McQuarrie, and are on the section of land south of the town site. Here was a great stone and gravel ridge, and over it passed trails of the pioneer settlers from North Greenwood and Dundas when they went to Stonewall and Balmoral, taking grist to the mill with their ox teams.

Observing the great limestone deposits and the gravel ridge they remarked that some day this stone and gravel would be in demand. Here beside the trail John Develin had built a lime kiln and sold the lime he made to the settlers. Hector McQuarrie built a blacksmith shop, and it is told that he was a good smith. They were in business there twenty years before the railway went through and twenty-seven years before Gunton village was started.

Outstanding perhaps in the history of Gunton was the arrival of 22 English families in the summer of 1906. They arrived from Winnipeg one evening by train. They got off the train at the south quarries, then called "Rockspur." Horse drawn carts from the quarry conveyed their equipment to an open sod field southwest of the quarries. Each family had been supplied with two tents by the immigration authorities. When these were all set up it looked like a small army camp.

The little Anglican Church was built in rather a bushy spot on the new townsite shortly after this. The first minister being the Rev. Hammond. It has served its purpose well and was also used for a school for a few years.

In 1907 the Methodist church was built. The services which were being held in the old Greenridge School were transferred to Gunton. In 1912 Windsor Presbyterian congregation united with the Gunton Methodists, making the first Union Church in Rockwood.

In 1911 the Gunton Consolidated School was built, absorbing most of the Greenridge district and closing the school there.

(Source: Rockwood Echoes - 90 Years of Progress (1870 - 1960), p 225 [1960; Adapted])

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Established in 1875, the Windsor church was on SE corner of the cemetery lot and dates back to 1895.

(Source: Manitoba Genealogical Society [Adapted])

Established in 1895, adjacent to the Windsor Presbyterian Church. Its congregation merged with that of the Gunton Methodist Church to form the Gunton Union Church.

(Source: Manitoba Historical Society [Adapted])

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Dominion Land Survey coordinates: LSD04-09-16-02-E1

In the Rural Municipality of Rockwood

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As noted above, a part of the community's story, and those of its inhabitants, from the early days of European settlement through roughly 1982 is told in the volume "Rockwood Echoes - 90 Years of Progress (1870 - 1960)", especially starting on the cited page, and in the related later work entitled "100 Years of History, Rockwood Municipality".

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".

A list of burials in this cemetery is available from the Manitoba Genealogical Society (reference #0666), transcribed by a member or members in 1992 and updated in 2001. 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).

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Additionally, many records for defunct United congregations in Manitoba, and those of the sects that merged to form it, are now kept in their Archives and Records Center in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.