Glade (Plodorodnoye) Cemetery - Glade, British Columbia
Posted by: 
T0SHEA
N 49° 23.644 W 117° 32.195
11U E 461063 N 5471402
To visit the Glade Doukhobor Cemetery take the Glade Ferry across the Columbia River. Once you dock you will be on Division Road; follow it (east) through the intersection and the cemetery is a short distance on the right about 500 metres.
Waymark Code: WMHAG5
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 06/15/2013
Views: 3
Glade Doukhobor Cemetery is a traditional Doukhobor cemetery and many of the headstones are in Russian. Some of the markers have the symbol of water, salt and bread: The Essence of Life.
Glade (Plodorodnoye) Cemetery was established in 1911 by the Christian Community of Universal Brotherhood to serve the Plodorodnoye settlement area.
The cemetery is approximately two acres in size and is unenclosed. Though the cemetery appears not in active use, it is still maintained.
The cemetery contains approximately 300 interments in a single section comprised of nineteen rows facing east-west. Approximately 400 of the graves have no marker, however, many of the mounds are still clearly visible. 59 of these have been identified through the use of death registrations and oral accounts.
With respect to graves with markers, the markers are typically plain slate, marble or concrete upright headstones or flat markers set flush to the ground.
At this cemetery site is placed a commemoration plaque of the 100 anniversary of the Migration of the Doukhobors.
City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: Glade, Central Kootenay Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
Approximate number of graves: 299
Cemetery Status: Active
Cemetery Website: [Web Link]
|
Visit Instructions:
Post an original, un-copywrited picture of the Cemetery into this Waymark gallery, along with any observations about the cemetery.
Recent Visits/Logs:
| There are no logs for this waymark yet. |
|
|
|