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 Lansdowne Cemetery - Armstrong, British Columbia Posted by:  T0SHEA
N 50° 28.388 W 119° 09.400
11U E 346966 N 5593459
The Lansdowne Cemetery is a wonderful old cemetery. There is a cairn just as you enter the cemetery. It is located at 4516 McLeery Road. From Hwy. 97A follow McLeery Road 3 km to cemetery. It is north of Armstrong.
Waymark Code: WMMF4K
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 09/11/2014
Views: 1
The Lansdowne Cemetery is located in the Municipality of Spallumcheen which has served numerous settlements in the North Okanagan for over 100 years. The first interment was in 1882 and the last in 1999.
The village of Lansdowne was located on the bench above the valley where Armstrong is now located. With the coming of the railway in 1892, the route selected for the Shuswap and Okanagan railway bypassed the village. As a consequence the village of Lansdowne disappeared. Many of the buildings, including the Anglican Church, were eventually moved to the community of Armstrong.
Prior to 1913 when the Armstrong Cemetery opened, the citizens of Armstrong were buried at Lansdowne. The land used for the Lansdowne Cemetery was donated by Herman Wichers. The Lansdowne cemetery continued to be used into the 1940's and still allows cremation remains to be interred.
This is a Pioneer Cemetery with a chain link fence surrounding the burying ground. An Armstrong youth group has taken good care of the cemetery and are in charge of mowing the grass. There are a number of wooden markers that are no longer legible.
There are approximately 335 interments.
Lansdowne Cemetery
Address: 4516 McLeery Road
City of Armstrong
When work was completed on the Shuswap\Okanagan Railway in 1892, Armstrong consisted of a lone box car which served as station and home for the rail agent.
"Apart from the box car," remarked one pioneer, "there was just willows & swamp". Ironically, the largest settlement in Spallumcheen was Lansdowne which was bypassed by the S & O Line.
Undaunted, the citizens of the community packed up belongings, even buildings and resettled beside the tracks in Armstrong
Today the only standing testimony we have of this once sprawling western town is the old Lansdowne Cemetery.
From the Armstrong Chamber of Commerce
City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: Armstrong, British Columbia
Approximate number of graves: 335
Cemetery Status: Inactive Maintained
Cemetery Website: [Web Link]
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