Steinbach’s Pioneer Cemetery is the city’s oldest cemetery where most of the earliest settlers were buried. A monument in the cemetery was dedicated in 1996 in memory of the pioneers who arrived in 1874 to found Steinbach. Some of the oak trees in the cemetery are 190 years old.
Steinbach Pioneer Cemetery (December 2019)
Source: Clara Bachmann
Steinbach Pioneer Cemetery (April 2022)
Source: Rose Kuzina
Pioneer commemorative monument in Steinbach Pioneer Cemetery (December 2019)
Source: Clara BachmannSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.52476, W96.68759
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 Tim Worth, Clara Bachmann, Rose Kuzina, and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 24 April 2022
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