This cemetery located just north of Portage la Prairie on Highway 240 contains a monument, erected in June 1972 by the Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire, that commemorates local veterans of the Boer War (1899-1902) in South Africa.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Home for Incurables / Home for the Aged and Infirm / Manitoba School for Mental Defectives / Manitoba School for Retardates / Manitoba Development Centre (3rd Street NE, Portage la Prairie)
“A Very Serious Matter”: The Manitoba Government’s Institution for People with Intellectual Disability by Mary Horodyski
Prairie History, Number 1, Winter 2020
Sources:
We thank George Penner for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 6 October 2020
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