Among the 14 marked headstones at the cemetery, he found that of Pte. His parents Nicola and Piaolo lived in the Rouleau area. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cemetery. Saint Pauls Anglican Cathedral Church Columbarium. Kirkpatrick thinks the neglect the Stanko Cemetery suffered is abnormal. Kirkpatrick thinks the neglect the Stanko Cemetery suffered is abnormal. It’s just this particular one fell through the cracks somehow.”. Read more about cookies here. said Dan Kirkpatrick. This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. Kirkpatrick, 60, had grown up in the Avonlea area, about 20 kilometres away from the cemetery. It’s just this particular one fell through the cracks somehow.”. Established in 1953, Riverside Memorial Park Cemetery is located in a quiet park like setting. No Stone Left Alone honours Canada’s fallen. on Nov. 6, 2020. Regina Memorial Gardens. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Dan Kirkpatrick shows a photo of a First World War soldiers' headstone he found at a cemetery in Avonlea, Sask. When he started in March 2020, it was overgrown and covered with badger holes. “I thought to at least give this man some respect. We encountered an issue signing you up. Get a roundup of the most important and intriguing national stories delivered to your inbox every weekday. The cemetery is now clear and walkable with the headstones marked out, Diminyatz’s among them. Approximately 600 interments occur here each year. Unauthorized distribution, transmission or republication strictly prohibited. Since mid-March, he made the 78-kilometre drive from Regina spending two to three hours every weekend restoring the seemingly forgotten site, the Stanko Cemetery… He’s been gone 100 years, but we’re not supposed to forget.”. He said he’d always heard of it being nearby. No Remembrance Day ceremony in Saskatoon, replaced by drive-by tribute. “Most of the graveyards everywhere I travel around Saskatchewan, they’re always taken care of. This guy is sitting there long since forgotten and it was just a sad thing to see,” Kirkpatrick said. It was a weekly affair for Kirkpatrick, right up to the middle of October. “We’re in this country, and like in every other one, we promise to remember the soldiers, right? Over the course of a few weekends, and approximately 21 hours, the initial cleanup was done,” he said. That allowed him to mow the grass and restore the plots around each headstone, which included adding gravel and cleaning off concrete rectangles used to mark the spots of some coffins. With over 30,000 plots, there are many historical figures buried at Regina Cemetery including lives lost in the 1912 Regina Tornado, Spanish influenza, the north-west rebellion and the 1935 Regina Riot. There are approximately 50 interments each year. Depending how highway conditions are after this weekend’s blizzard, he plans to pay his respects to Diminyatz on Remembrance Day and lay a wreath at his headstone. Regina man restores veterans’ long neglected rural grave site, Evan Radford, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter. His parents Nicola and Piaolo lived in the Rouleau area. Lazar Diminyatz. There was an error, please provide a valid email address. 1850-1994, with an explanation about the transcripts at Historical Records To find cemetery records for Saskatchewan in the FamilySearch Catalog follow these steps: "We're in this country, and like in every other one, we promise to remember the soldiers, right?" Kirkpatrick spent every weekend since March restoring an abandoned and overgrown cemetery on the east side of Avonlea, Sask. 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