St. Mary's Pioneer Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 51.026297, -114.063255
County:
Record count: 568

Ownership: City of Calgary

Directions: Located adjacent to St. Mary's Cemetery on the north side of 31 Ave SW.

Background: In 1876, the year after the Redcoats built their stockade, the Roman Catholic Mission established a burial ground at Second Street & 24 Avenue S.W. The first recorded burial took place in February of that year. After 10 years of use, the small graveyard was officially registered as a cemetery in 1886. When the cemetery closed in 1897, the early graves were exhumed and moved to the site of the new St. Mary's Cemetery, which had been established on the west side of Macleod Trail at Erlton Street and 32 Avenue S.W. The City of Calgary assumed management of St. Mary's Cemetery in 1935, and over time the cemetery was expanded to the south and east. The cemetery offers a mixture of upright monument and flat marker sections. The cemetery also features a new columbarium garden for the interment of cremated remains.

The original northern portion of St. Mary's Cemetery is now known as St. Mary's Pioneer Cemetery.

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• City of Calgary, Open Data, compiled by Interment.net, June 23, 2025, (568 records)