Cemetery Documentation

• Handbook for Recording Inscriptions in Cemeteries
• Cemetery Survey Form
• Marker Recorder Form
• Municipal Designation of Cemeteries in NL
• The Provincial Archaeology Office (PAO) and Abandoned Cemeteries
• Ground Penetrating Radar Considerations for Archaeological Sites

Examples of NL Cemetery Databases

• St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Cemetery, Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove.
• St. Paul's Anglican Church Cemetery, Trinity, Trinity Bay
• Blank cemetery database spreadsheet template (free to copy, email dale@heritagenl.ca for help setting it up)

Conservation and Repair of Grave Markers

Note: Do No Harm! Before you start any work on historic markers or tombstones, contact ich@heritagenl.ca to go over your plan for conservation. Do not add substances such as flour, face powder, bleach, chalk, chemical cleaners, shaving cream, etc, to markers - you should always prefer a non-invasive method to interact with gravestones. A powerful flashlight or mirror is your best bet for reading difficult inscriptions. 

• Association for Gravestone Studies: Preservation
• Landscapes of Memories: A Guide for Conserving Historic Cemeteries - Repairing  (NB: this guide published 2003 - some of the methods here may be out of date, so do your homework before you start any repairs!)

Historic Newfoundland and Labrador Burial Sites and Cemeteries

• No. 007 - February 2017 - Chinese Graves at the General Protestant Cemetery, St
• An Early European Burial Ground at Bloody Point, New Perlican
• Exploring God's Acre: The Moravian Church Mission Graveyard, Hebron Labrador.
• A History of St. Mark’s Anglican Cemetery, New Perlican
• 'Here lieth interr'd': an examination of 17th-century British burial landscapes in eastern North America
• A nursery for seamen: life histories from the St. John's Royal Naval Hospital Cemetery, Newfoundland
• Patterns in the Methodist Cemetery at Freshwater, C.B.
• The place of burial : spatial focus of contact of the living with the dead in eastern areas of the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland
• The Saddle Island cemetery: a study of whalers at a sixteenth-century basque whaling station in Red Bay, Labrador
• The Transformation of the Traditional Newfoundland Cemetery: Institutionalizing the Secular Dead
• Transnational Identities of Early 20th-Century Chinese Immigrants: A Study of Chinese Graves in the General Protestant Cemetery in St. John’s, Newfoundland
• WH: The Mystery of L’Anse-au-Loup Labrador

Material Culture: Headstones, Memorials, Carvers

• Décryptage d’une pierre tombale à Harbour Main
• Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland Gravestones
• Frederick George Chislett
• Funerals: Did you know?
• List of grave marker and memorial carvers for NL
• Master Stonecutter
• A Permanent Place in Newfoundland: Seventeenth-Century Basque Tombstones in Placentia
• A Survey of White Bronze Mortuary Monuments in St. John's
• When Death is a Family Tradition:Barry Skinner- Genealogist, A Legend in His Own Time and Space

Funerary Architecture

• No. 004 - August 2013 - Lych-gates in Newfoundland
• The Moravian Dead Houses of Labrador

Podcasts and Interviews

• Cemetery Tales with Dale Jarvis
• The General Protestant Cemetery with Suzanne Sexty
• Headstones, Hexfoils, and Historic Archaeology with Robyn Lacy
• Using the BillionGraves app to document local cemeteries