Avid genealogist and community historian who volunteers his time and records to enter data so that as many people as possible can be memorialized and their graves located.

Each time I create a memorial, I am pleased to hope that it may someday provide valuable information to a genealogist or researcher or comfort to a loved one.

I am always delighted to hear from family and friends of those whose graves I have entered into this system. In some cases, I may have much more information. If you wish to add, change or correct any information or include some biographical data on a record I have created, you are very welcome to contact me ([email protected])

Areas of specialty: The Red Lake District of Northwestern Ontario, Canada (including the towns of Red Lake, Madsen, McKenzie Island, Cochenour, Balmertown, McMarmac, Starratt-Olsen, Ear Falls, Gold Pines and others), and Letellier and Laurier, Manitoba.

A burial plot monument or marker, as well as any information inscribed on it, are considered to be freely in the public domain (under the Canadian Protection of Personal Information and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). The information is public regardless of when the person died, as is information on markers which depict a person still living.

DEAR ANCESTOR
By Walter Palmer Butler
"Your tombstone stands among the rest
Neglected and alone.
The names and the dates are chiselled out
on polished marble stone.
It reaches out to all that care
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse,
Not entirely on our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot
And come to visit you."

Avid genealogist and community historian who volunteers his time and records to enter data so that as many people as possible can be memorialized and their graves located.

Each time I create a memorial, I am pleased to hope that it may someday provide valuable information to a genealogist or researcher or comfort to a loved one.

I am always delighted to hear from family and friends of those whose graves I have entered into this system. In some cases, I may have much more information. If you wish to add, change or correct any information or include some biographical data on a record I have created, you are very welcome to contact me ([email protected])

Areas of specialty: The Red Lake District of Northwestern Ontario, Canada (including the towns of Red Lake, Madsen, McKenzie Island, Cochenour, Balmertown, McMarmac, Starratt-Olsen, Ear Falls, Gold Pines and others), and Letellier and Laurier, Manitoba.

A burial plot monument or marker, as well as any information inscribed on it, are considered to be freely in the public domain (under the Canadian Protection of Personal Information and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). The information is public regardless of when the person died, as is information on markers which depict a person still living.

DEAR ANCESTOR
By Walter Palmer Butler
"Your tombstone stands among the rest
Neglected and alone.
The names and the dates are chiselled out
on polished marble stone.
It reaches out to all that care
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse,
Not entirely on our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot
And come to visit you."