This cemetery about two miles southeast of Shellmouth in the Rural Municipality of Riding Mountain West was the first one to serve the local area. Situated at the top of a high, undulating knoll, the cemetery was abandoned in the early 1940s. A fieldstone cairn lists the names of those buried in the cemetery.
Entrance to the Shellmouth pioneers cemetery (June 2018)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Shellmouth pioneers monument (June 2018)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Location (lat/long): N50.91966, W101.46105
denoted by symbol on the map above
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.
This page was prepared by Donald Burroughs and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 29 June 2018
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