- Source: Woodlawn Cemetery (Saskatoon)
Woodlawn Cemetery is a cemetery located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Located in the cemetery is the Next of Kin Memorial Avenue, a National Historic Site of Canada, that is dedicated to all those who served with Canada's armed forces.
The cemetery was established in 1905 as St. Paul's Roman Catholic Cemetery, with the city taking over responsibility in 1918. Prior to that point in time either the Nutana Pioneer Cemetery in Nutana or the Summerdale Cemetery in the town of Smithville (now annexed into the Blairmore SDA) was used.
The cemetery has been divided into the following sections to specific customs and religious traditions or special affiliations:
Children
Infants
Cremated Remains
University of Saskatchewan
Field of Honour (Military)
Flat Marker
Upright Monument
Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'i
Catholic
Chinese
Greek
Orthodox
Islamic Ismalian
Jewish
Non-Denominational
Block 55 contains the war graves of 107 Commonwealth service personnel of the First and Second World Wars.
Notable burials
Richard St. Barbe Baker, environmentalist
Dmytro Cipywnyk, physician and academic
William Harvey Clare, mayor of Saskatoon
James Clinkskill, mayor of Saskatoon
Gerry Couture, NHL hockey player
Norman James Boswell Fowler, NHL hockey player
Lyell Gustin, pianist, music educator, and adjudicator
John W. Hair, mayor of Saskatoon
William Hopkins, mayor of Saskatoon
Malcolm Scarth Halsetter Isbister, mayor of Saskatoon
Percy Klaehn, mayor of Saskatoon
James Lloyd Klein, NHL hockey player
Frank MacMillan, Conservative politician
Angus W. MacPherson, mayor of Saskatoon
Charlie Mason, NHL hockey player
John Sproule Mills, mayor of Saskatoon
George Wesley Norman, mayor of Saskatoon
Robert Pitford Pinder, mayor of Saskatoon
Herbert Sidney Sears, mayor of Saskatoon
Reinhold Tamke, proprietor of Little Chief Service Station and owner of the farm land that became The Willows, Saskatoon
Joseph Edwin Underwood, mayor of Saskatoon
James Robert Wilson, mayor of Saskatoon
Russell Wilson, mayor of Saskatoon
Alexander MacGillivray Young, mayor of Saskatoon, Member of the House of Commons of Canada
References
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- Woodlawn Cemetery (Saskatoon)
- Woodlawn Cemetery
- Kelsey-Woodlawn, Saskatoon
- List of cemeteries in Canada
- Next of Kin Memorial Avenue
- Nutana Pioneer Cemetery
- Diefenbaker Management Area, Saskatoon
- Exhibition, Saskatoon
- Alexander MacGillivray Young
- Hammy Gillespie