Английская Википедия:Burnsland Cemetery
Burnsland Cemetery is a Шаблон:Cvt urban cemetery in Calgary, Alberta, Canada containing about 22,000 graves.[1] It is located in the city's southeast in the predominantly industrial district of Manchester, and is the burial place for many of Calgary's First World War veterans.[1]
The cemetery is named after Patrick Burns, one of the Big Four founders of the Calgary Stampede.[2] Burns was a local rancher and meat packer who donated the land to the city in 1922.[1][3] Along with St. Mary's Cemetery, Union Cemetery, Chevra Kadisha (Jewish) Cemetery, and the Chinese Cemetery, Burnsland Cemetery is recognized by Heritage Calgary as a culturally significant historical landscape,[4] and every summer the city offers guided walking tours through the cemetery district.[5]
History
Burnsland Cemetery was established in 1923 when the Union Cemetery established 40 years earlier began to run out of space as the city expanded.[1] It was designed in the style of Victorian garden cemeteries which sought to create a welcoming park-like area for residents to visit.[3] Like the Union Cemetery, many of the city's earliest pioneers and settlers were buried here.[6]
The cemetery contains a field of honour administered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission where one First World War casualty and 197 Second World War casualties are buried.[7] The majority of the Second World War burials are airmen who died during training at nearby Royal Air Force facilities.[7] The field of honour is also the location of a Cross of Sacrifice, 25 of which are in Canada.[3]
See also
References
External links
- The Canadian Virtual War Memorial
- Commonwealth War Dead, Burnsland
- Шаблон:Find a Grave cemetery
- Heritage Calgary
- Locate a Grave (City of Calgary)
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