Historic Sites of Manitoba: Ninette Cemetery (Ninette, RM of Prairie Lakes)

This cemetery is situated at Ninette in the Rural Municipality of Prairie Lakes. Some patients from the Ninette Sanatorium were buried here.

Ninette Cemetery

Ninette Cemetery (September 2020)
Source: George Penner

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.39886, W99.64244
denoted by symbol on the map above

Ninette Sanatorium Burials (* unmarked grave)

Name

Age

Last Residence

Death Date

Anton Amundson

71

Norway

12 March 1949

Thomas Angus*

52

Scotland

? December 1938

William Arthur Baker

9

Brandon

28 March 1926

John Booth

46

?

10 June 1961

Robert Bolton

54

?

5 June 1965

William Derhay*

43

Poland

22 January 1946

Isabel Finlayson*

28

Scotland

1 August 1922

Julie Freeman*

48

?

26 October 1960

Orval C. Graham*

41

?

5 April 1948

Sam Heeney*

50

Ireland

11 July 1945

Paul Ivanchy*

?

?

17 September 1949

Rose Evelyn Love*

2

Ochre River

22 March 1926

Donald MacDonald

64

Scotland

4 May 1959

John MacNab*

40

England

6 February 1923

Peter McConnell*

35

Scotland

15 November 1926

Margaret McKenzie*

34

Scotland

24 November 1921

Jane Beatrice Rackham*

45

Moose Factory, Ontario

10 November 1923

Joseph Scott

64

Maine, USA

7 April 1964

Alfred Smith*

41

Bradford, England

4 December 1927

Ann Sundal*

25

Gardenton

23 July 1945

Wilton Telfer*

58

?

4 October 1944

Lena Woolsley*

22

?

8 November 1925

Henry Youppi

80

?

12 April 1972

Additional burials of Ninette Sanatorium patients were made in the Belmont Hillside Cemetery.

Sources:

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 the Ninette Cemetery Committee for providing a list of patients from the Ninette Sanatorium who were buried in the cemetery.

This page was prepared by Tim Worth, George Penner, and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 8 October 2020

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