Broad Valley Cemetery
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Broad Valley Cemetery

Also known as Homewood Mennonite Church Cemetery , Homewood Bergthaler Mennonite Cemetery

Barnsley, Pembina Valley Census Division, Manitoba, Canada

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  • Get directions MB-305 (Range Road 15N)
    Homewood, RM of Dufferin, Manitoba, R0G 0Y0 Canada
    Coordinates: 49.59114, -97.82393
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    Located NE of the town of Carman, MB and eight miles (12/8 km) directly east of Barnsley on the south side of Provincial Road 305; the cemetery is on the Southwest corner of the intersection at 305 and a gravel road. There are several pine trees by the graves on the west end of the cemetery.

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A Mennonite settlement began in the mid-1920s. A small cemetery along Provincial Highway 305 in the Rural Municipality of Dufferin was established in 1934.


Originally part of a farm owned by Martin A. Hiebert, the land was donated to the Homewood Bergthaler Mennonite Church and a cemetery was started soon thereafter. However, it was not until June 13, 1961, that the municipality consented to use of a portion of NE-20-7-3-W1 for the purposes of a cemetery. The Hiebert farm was located directly south of the cemetery; only a tree remains there now to mark the yard site. There are 21 headstones, many of which mark the graves of young children. (Source: Carman / Dufferin Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee [Adapted])


The Broad Valley Schoolhouse was located on the Northwest corner of the intersection and the church was further west of there. Neither the church nor the schoolhouse remain but there is a farmhouse where the schoolhouse was and another farmhouse directly east across the road on the Northeast corner.

 

Dominion Land Survey coordinates: LSD16-20-07-03-W1

 

More of the story of the town and its inhabitants from the early days of European settlement through roughly 19nn is told in the volume "The Rural Municipality of Dufferin 1880-1980", especially starting on page 56. A digital version of this and many other Manitoba local history books can be found online in the University of Manitoba Digital Collections. There is also a list of such books organized by district and town name on the Manitoba Historical Society's website on their page entitled "Finding Aid: Manitoba Local History Books".

A Mennonite settlement began in the mid-1920s. A small cemetery along Provincial Highway 305 in the Rural Municipality of Dufferin was established in 1934.


Originally part of a farm owned by Martin A. Hiebert, the land was donated to the Homewood Bergthaler Mennonite Church and a cemetery was started soon thereafter. However, it was not until June 13, 1961, that the municipality consented to use of a portion of NE-20-7-3-W1 for the purposes of a cemetery. The Hiebert farm was located directly south of the cemetery; only a tree remains there now to mark the yard site. There are 21 headstones, many of which mark the graves of young children. (Source: Carman / Dufferin Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee [Adapted])


The Broad Valley Schoolhouse was located on the Northwest corner of the intersection and the church was further west of there. Neither the church nor the schoolhouse remain but there is a farmhouse where the schoolhouse was and another farmhouse directly east across the road on the Northeast corner.

 

Dominion Land Survey coordinates: LSD16-20-07-03-W1

 

More of the story of the town and its inhabitants from the early days of European settlement through roughly 19nn is told in the volume "The Rural Municipality of Dufferin 1880-1980", especially starting on page 56. A digital version of this and many other Manitoba local history books can be found online in the University of Manitoba Digital Collections. There is also a list of such books organized by district and town name on the Manitoba Historical Society's website on their page entitled "Finding Aid: Manitoba Local History Books".

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