William (Bill) Armstrong's photos with the keyword: cross

A cross in the cemetery beside Sr. Martin's Church (Billimun), in southern Saskatchewan. Settlers began arriving in the area in the early 1900s, and the first church was built at this site in 1912.Many of the homesteaders came here from what is now Ukraine, having migrated there from Germany.

Near Buffalo Pound Lake there is a church and cemetery located in the corner of a farm field. The church was built in 1896, but the large cemetery is still mostly empty. One of the early settler families was very successful; several burial plots bear the Nicolle name. This impressive granite cross stands over all of the markers.

This old wooden cross leans up against a fence surrounding a small graveyard on a high point of land overlooking Marguerite Lake, near Indian Head, Saskatchewan. Someone recently had placed simple metal markers identifying the people buried there, since the inscriptions on the marble headstones were only partly legible. All of the names were of French origin, including a Marguerite, who may have been the matriarch of the group that settled nearby. The metal marker closest to the wooden cross was for Charles Galot, 1865-1896, so I presume the wood cross may have been his original grave marker.

A view from a country cemetery near Abernathy, Saskatchewan. The stone church beside the cemetery was built with volunteer labour in 1892, a long time ago by Saskatchewan standards. Don’t use this image on websites, blogs or other media without explicit permission. Copyright William Armstrong. 2020