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A new work in progress!

For those of you researching ancestors on the Sunshine Coast we are in the process of developing a resource site to guide you.   The site will include information on cemeteries, churches, genealogy links and records, places of research,  societies and support.
If there is something you would like to see included please email.

Cemeteries

Gambier Island - Mariners' Rest, a provincially designed site for burial of ashes at sea, is located in Howe Sound in Thornbrough Channel off the west coast of Gambier Island. 

Gibsons - Gibson Family Cemetery.  Land for a family cemetery and a Methodist church was donated by George W. Gibson Sr.  The church is gone and the cemetery is now surrounded by the town visitor center and a small park. 16 memorials

Gibsons - Mount Elphinstone Pioneer Cemetery.  Dates back to May 1916.  Plots are no longer sold, but interments of plot owners continue to occur.  First interment was Maggie Lehman, 1919, a teenaged girl who died from Spanish Influenza.  112 memorials

Madeira Park - Forest View Cemetery.  Martha and Martin Warnock donated the cemetery in 1933 in memory of their young son, who was buried there.  217 memorials

​Pender Harbour - Kleindale Cemetery 32 memorials

​Roberts Creek - Seaview Cemetery.  Operated by Sunshine Coast Regional District.  1549 memorials
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Sechelt - Sechelt Indian Cemetery.  This cemetery was associated with Our Lady of Lourdes Church. 10 memorials

Sechelt - St. Hilda's Pioneer Anglican Cemetery.  The cemetery was created in 1923 when the owner of the property, Thomas J. Cook, gave permission for two young children who were not Roman Catholic to be buried there. 258 memorials

Churches

Davis Bay - Calvary Chapel Sunshine Coast
​Davis Bay - Grace Covenant Church
Davis Bay - St. John's United Church
Gibsons - Calvary Baptist Church
Gibsons - Christ the King Community Church
Gibsons - Christian Life Assembly Church
Gibsons - Gibsons Community Fellowship
Gibsons - St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church
Gibsons - St. Mary's Catholic Church
Gibsons - Sunshine Coast Community Church [The Salvation Army]
Gibsons - Gibsons United Church
Halfmoon Bay - Church of His Presence [ St. Columba] on Redrooffs Road in Halfmoon Bay.  Canon Greene's little church was built in 1962 as a Wayside shrine for all to use.  It is a memorial to all the British Columbia Coastal Folk served by the Columbia Coast Mission (Anglican) since 1905.  
Madeira Park - Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church
Madeira Park - Pender Harbour Community Church
Sechelt - Bethel Baptist Church
Sechelt - Crossroads Community Church
Sechelt - Holy Family Catholic Church
​Sechelt - Living Faith Lutheran Church
Sechelt - New Life Fellowship
Sechelt - ​Our Lady of Lourdes church (1907-1970) was built after Our Lady of the Rosary burned down in 1906.   A Sunshine Coast mission church's history dated back to 1868.  The second Our Lady of Lourdes church was transported by barge from a former military base in Ladner, B.C.  It was dedicated on December 2, 1973 and closed in 2020.  All churches were located on Sechelt Band lands.
Sechelt - Seventh Day Adventist Church
Sechelt - St Hilda's Anglican Church
Sechelt - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Wilson Creek - Sunshine Coast Community Baptist Church

Genealogy Links & Records

BC Archives​
BC Archives Genealogy - General Search (indexes to births (1854-1903), marriages (1871-1946), deaths (1872-2001), colonial marriages (1859-1872) and baptisms (1836-1888))
BC City Directories
​BC Church Records
​Library and Archives Canada BC Genealogy Resources (Civil registration (birth, marriage and death records); Adoption and divorce; Courts and criminal records; Land records; Wills and estate records)
Vancouver Public Library Church Records
Vancouver Public Library Indigenous Ancestry
BC Historical Newspapers (The Province, The Times-Colonist, The Vancouver Sun)
Coast Reporter (1945-1995)
Peninsula Times (1963-1979)
University of British Columbia Historical Newspapers

Places of Research

Egmont Heritage Centre
Pender Harbour Living Heritage Society
Powell River Historical Museum and Archives
Sechelt Community Archives
Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives
tems swiya Museum
Vancouver Public Library - Genealogy and Family History
Vancouver Public Library - Historical Photograph Collection

Societies & Support

BC Genealogy Society
Library and Archives Canada Metis Genealogy
Metis Nation of Canada Genealogy Research
Powell River Genealogy Group
​Sechelt Library - Genealogy
Sunshine Coast Family History Society
​Sunshine Coast Genealogy Club and Facebook Group (private)
Texada Island Heritage Society
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