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AFHS Featured in Claresholm Local Press
On August 12, several of our cemetery volunteers took photos of the headstones in Granum Cemetery. This was featured in the Claresholm Local Press. To see this article, please use […]
Alberta volunteers cataloguing rural cemeteries in the Foothills
The High River News has a great article on our AFHS cemetery field team. Published on July 5 by Derek Craddock. Pictured are Heather Williams, Wendy Schultz and several of […]
CTV Calgary comes to Queen’s Park Cemetery
On Thursday, June 20, 2024, Kevin Fleming of CTV News was on hand at Queen’s Park Cemetery in Calgary to interview and film a handful of cemetery volunteers. The interviewees […]
Drone technology locating lost grave sites in southern Alberta
Global News Article by By Micah Quintin & Quinn Campbell, posted November 22, 2023 Drones locating lost gravesites? A new initiative is helping to discover unmarked graves in eight cemeteries […]
The Shoebox
A shoebox full of papers is handed over to AFHS President Ron Gilmore while visiting relatives one summer. It contains some photos, letters and postcards connecting Ron to his grandfather […]
