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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 […]
Lest We Forget
Lest we forget. AFHS Webmaster Jim Benedict shares a personal story of his Uncle who flew in Lancaster Bomber Airplanes for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) during World War […]
