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Link to info on the City website:
http://content.calgary.ca/CCA/City+Hall/Business+Units/Parks/Things+to+do/Cemetery+tours.htm

Cemetery tours
If headstones could talk, oh, the stories they could tell!

Free walking tours of Calgary's cemeteries
Cemeteries are like museums, their headstones serving as a record of our culture and social history. In enduring stone, they reflect personal and national sentiment; speak of love, pity and patriotism; summarize lives of remarkable longevity and remind us of lives lost through tragedy.

Many of Calgary's colourful characters lie buried in our oldest existing civic burial grounds. During the summer months, the City tells these fascinating stories through free guided walking tours of Calgary's historic Union Cemetery, Burnsland Cemetery and St. Mary's Pioneer Cemetery.

Note: tours are not wheelchair accessible and are best suited for adults and children nine years and older. Pets are not permitted in cemeteries.

Cemetery tour dates
Tours run Saturdays and Sundays, June 5 - October 2, 2011, 2 - 3:30 p.m.

Union Cemetery - every Sunday
28 Ave. & Spiller Rd. S.E. - meet at the Galloway House on the east side of the cemetery. Vehicle access through entrance off Spiller Rd.

St. Mary's Pioneer Cemetery - third Saturday of each month
Erlton St. & 32 Ave. S.W. - meet at the Pioneer Cemetery gates, inside St. Mary's Cemetery gates.

Burnsland Cemetery - last Saturday of each month
27 Ave. & Spiller Rd. S.E. - meet at the Galloway House on the east side of the cemetery. Vehicle access through entrance off Spiller Rd.

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Cemeteries are like museums, their headstones serving as a record of our culture and social history. In enduring stone, they reflect personal and national sentiment; speak of love, pity and patriotism; summarize lives of remarkable longevity and remind us of lives lost through tragedy.

Many of Calgary's colourful characters lie buried in our oldest existing civic burial grounds. During the summer months, the City tells these fascinating stories through free guided walking tours of Calgary's historic Union Cemetery, Burnsland Cemetery and St. Mary's Pioneer Cemetery.

Note: tours are not wheelchair accessible and are best suited for adults and children nine years and older. Pets are not permitted in cemeteries.


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