The old Blenheim district, south-west from Birtle: some of the early settlers here coming from England and some from Ontario. Mr. Seal, Malcolm, Quelch, and Flower, all homesteaded here and spent the greater part of their lives. Huntley Malcolm later became Minister Of Agriculture for Manitoba, and Charlie Flower became Mayor of Birtle for a time. Mr. Huenichen another Blenheim pioneer, who drove a yoke of oxen, and led a cow from Winnipeg, the trip taking six weeks, was for several years Reeve of Birtle Municipality. There was also Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Winter and family, two of the girls coming from England.

(Source: Our Ancestors Arrive in Manitoba, p 36 [Undated; Adapted])

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Established in 1903, in the church yard of Blenheim St. Alban's Anglican Church. The church, constructed in that year using local fieldstones, supervised by local farmer Christopher T. Winter, 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.

(Source: Manitoba Genealogical Society [Adapted])

(Source: Manitoba Historical Society [Adapted])

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Dominion Land Survey coordinates: LSD04-13-16-27-W1

In the Municipality of Prairie View

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As noted above, a part of the community's story, and those of its inhabitants, from the early days of European settlement is told in the volume "Our Ancestors Arrive in Manitoba", especially on the cited page. A free digital version of this and many other Manitoba local history books can be found online in the University of Manitoba Digital Collections. There is also a list of such books organized by district and town name on the Manitoba Historical Society's website on their page entitled "Finding Aid: Manitoba Local History Books".

A list of burials in this cemetery is available from the Manitoba Genealogical Society (reference #0013), transcribed by a member or members in 1980. Also available to MGS members is a searchable online database named the "MGS Manitoba Name Index" (or 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).

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Additionally, many records for Anglican congregations in Manitoba and over part of the territory designated historically as "Rupert's Land" (esp, as bounded on the south by the U.S. border, extending north into the Manitoba Interlake Region past Fairford, with the western boundary reaching into the Pembina Hills and includes Portage la Prairie, eastward the diocese stretches to Sioux Lookout/Atikokan) are now with the Diocese of Rupert's Land and are kept in their offices in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.