St Margaret's Cemetery - Fernie, BC - Worldwide Cemeteries on Waymarking.com

This appears to be the only "official" cemetery within the City of Fernie, although a number of older burial sites are know or suspected to exist within the city (see WM104XJ for more details) (visit link)

According to the City of Fernie's website, St Margaret's Cemetery "
includes a heritage section which dates back to the late 1800's. In 1948 the City took over operation of the cemetery from the Crowsnest Pass Coal Company and expanded its operation"

The Find A Grave website lists 4507 memorials for this cemetery, while a study released in early 2013 reported 542 people to be buried at St. Margaret’s Cemetery - although this is possibly the number of burials between 1889 and 1911, since that was the time period which the study focused on.

Links:
City of Fernie - Cemetery Cemetery
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St Margaret's Cemetery on Find a Grave (visit link)

"Fernie may have additional burial sites outside of St. Margaret’s Cemetery" - Fernie Free Press, Jan. 29, 2013 (visit link)

"A Grave Mistake: Burial sites in Fernie vanish amid new development" - Global News, August 11, 2014 (visit link)

City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: Fernie, BC, Canada Approximate number of graves: 4500 Cemetery Status: Active Cemetery Website: [Web Link]

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