A site south west of Birtle in the Municipality of Prairie View was occupied by St. Alban’s Anglican Church and its cemetery. Constructed in 1903 using local fieldstones, supervised by local farmer Christopher T. Winter, the church was closed in 1986 and demolished. A monument in the cemetery commemorates local men who were killed during service in the First World War. A second monument commemorates the former church.
Remembrance Day service at St. Alban’s Anglican Church (no date)
Source: Audrey & Duncan Waddell
St. Alban’s Anglican Church (August 1959)
Source: Charles Durham Bird
Interior of St. Alban’s Anglican Church (August 1959)
Source: Charles Durham Bird
Blenheim Cemetery with war memorial monument at left (March 2016)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Blenheim commemorative monument (March 2016)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Location (lat/long): N50.35928, W101.08431
denoted by symbol on the map above
Name
Occupation
Service
Rank
Birth Date
Death Date
Jeweller
8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Sergeant
17 October 1895
31 August 1918
Robert Stoddart Gregg
[Portage]Farmer
1st Canadian Mounted Rifles
Private
23 August 1896
15 September 1916
James Coleman Kirk
Clerk
3rd Battalion, Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Private
23 November 1882
27 September 1918
Neil Stuart Malcolm
[Birtle]?
Royal Field Artillery, British Army
Bombardier
? July 1875
13 November 1916
Arthur E. Nealing
?
?
?
?
?
Reginald Drake Palmer
[Miniota]Teamster
1st Canadian Mounted Rifles
Corporal
25 September 1890
1 October 1916
Farmer
43rd Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Private
5 August 1887
26 October 1917
A list of burials in this cemetery is available from the Manitoba Genealogical Society, including a searchable online database available to members at the MGS Manitoba Name Index (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.
We thank Ron Bell, Brenda Samchuk, Charles Durham Bird, and Audrey & Duncan Waddell for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Darryl Toews.
Page revised: 16 November 2020
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