"PIONEER PARK"
(Cemetery)

LUC GIROUARD SET ASIDE THIS
PLOT OF LAND (.52 ACRES) FOR THE
PURPOSE OF A PUBLIC CEMETERY IN
THE 1800'S; AND WAS INTERRED
HERE IN 1895.

LUC GIROUARD WAS VERNON'S FIRST
ORCHARDIST AND POSTMASTER.

THIS CEMETERY HAS BEEN KNOWN
OVER THE YEARS AS VERNON
PUBLIC CEMETERY, OLD PIONEER
CEMETERY.=, OLD KAMLOOPS ROAD
CEMETERY, AND HAS BEEN ACQUIRED
BY THE CITY OF VERNON AND IS
DEDICATED TO THE OLD TIMER'S
OF THIS AREA AS PIONEER PARK.
UNDER ORDERS-IN-COUNCIL 1159,
DATED THE 9TH DAY OF APRIL, A.D.
1973.

The Entrance to, and what remains of the former "Pioneer Park Cemetery". You can see the rock wall to the far right with the few remaining gravestone markers. Photo taken Sunday April 24, 2016.

The rock wall with the few remaining markers for the former "Pioneer Park Cemetery" Photo taken Sunday April 24, 2016.

List of the names of the interments at this location which is the former "Pioneer Park Cemetery". Photo taken Sunday April 24, 2016.