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 (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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