Saskatchewan Cemeteries Categorization

Question

Can someone explain to me why the Saskatchewan cemeteries are categorized by Division?

Whenever I see Saskatchewan cemeteries, they are listed by Rural Municipality (RM), see  for example the Saskatchewan Cemeteries Project website.

http://sites.rootsweb.com/~cansacem/

Regards, Gerry

Answer 1

This is a good question I've often wondered when categorizing Saskatchewan cemeteries! It's sort of confusing.

Answer 2

Hi Gerry!

No. Idea. LOL.

But I am more than happy to address it if there is a more logical approach.

Feel free to message me directly.

Comments

I think part of it is that the RMs are not well represented or named well in the location categories for Saskatchewan. Being from the US, I have no idea that https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Garden_River_No._490%2C_Saskatchewan Garden River is a rural municipality by this category name. In the very least, the name should be reflected in the category info box with the name= parameter.

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Exactly. There are 296 RM's, which is an overwhelming concept to try to start categorizing. I would be more in mind to use the 18 Census divisions to start.

I'll ask the rest of the team and see what we can come up with.

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Good idea. I can see why the census divisions were used then...296 is A LOT of groupings to make for cemeteries!

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OK I understand that the 'granularity' is overwhelming. Back to my question on cemetery categorization and names, can we add a subcategory of Rural Municipality?

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If you need to add a cemetery, go ahead.

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296 groupings is on a par with Texas counties (254). Do the people who live there know which census division they live in? Have all the census divisions been stable? Just questions.

Answer 3

Thinking about this some more, Québec has managed to get along without subdividing by a division higher than town/city. I would think that there are likely far more cemeteries there than in Saskatchewan so the Québec model should work there as well.

Answer 4

On WikiTree Maps you can see all geolocated cemeteries in Saskatchewan

If you look them by parent (on the left), all the cemeteries in a region are connected with a colored line.

Here is the link.

https://wikitree.sdms.si/maps?mapshow=cem&location=52,-103,6.8

Comments

Looks like lots are missing...