January 2012 Update
In 1985, KDGS began transcribing cemetery markers in the Central Okanagan from Peachland to Oyama. These transcriptions were published in booklets which are no longer available for sale. The KDGS library now located on the 2nd Floor of the Downtown Kelowna Library has a copy of each booklet.
Over the past couple of years the KDGS volunteers have been busy transcribing and photographing Central Okanagan cemetery markers. The photographic portion of the project is completed for now and all the photos are available on Murray Pletsch's Canadian Gravemarker Gallery website at:
http://www.gravemarkers.ca/ We are in the final phases of putting together all the transcriptions and histories so that we can publish our cemetery books later this year.
Cemeteries completed for now include:
- Peachland Cemetery
- Peachland Cenotaph
- Westbank Cemetery
- Westbank Cenotaph
- Stocks Meadow
- St. Andrew’s Churchyard
- St. Andrew’s Memorial Plaques
- St. Michael and All Angels Cathedral Memorial Plaques
- Immaculate Conception Cemetery
- St. Theresa Cemetery
- Winfield Cemetery (New)
- Winfield Cemetery (Old)
- Oyama Community Cemetery
- Postill Family Cemetery
Future projects:
- Gellatly Family Cemetery (Westbank)
- Glenrosa Cemetery
- Kelowna Memorial Park Cemetery
- Hardy Family Cemetery
- Memorial plaques
- Cemetery on Jim Bailey Road in Winfield
- Cenotaphs:
- Kelowna City Park
- Kelowna Fire Hall #2
- Rutland
- Winfield
