What to do when you locate an OLD grave site in the bush?....

[drake]

I’m talking about OLD grave sites.....a seemingly random cross or small monument in the bush. What do you do? Who do you notify? Should you notify anyone?....just curious

[Hawkhills]

A moment of reflection and I move on.The mor people that know about it the more likely someone will disturb it.Just my 2 cents

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[hayseed]

I would say a kind word, have a moment of silence and move on.
Nothing more.

[walking buffalo]

Originally Posted by Hawkhills

A moment of reflection and I move on.The mor people that know about it the more likely someone will disturb it.Just my 2 cents

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That's worth much more than .02....


Leave it alone, don't advertise it.

[CaberTosser]

Check for gold teeth.





But in reality, same as post #2.

[Puma]

Usually a memorial to an outdoorsman, not a grave.

We spread the cremains of an old forest fire warden and hunting buddy in the bush, but left no marker.

I stop by and have a coffee with him once in a while when hunting the area.

Use respect and move on...

[artie]

If you like visiting the area keep it quiet.

Otherwise some group might declare it an ancient burial site and it will be fenced off and off limits to you.

[JDK71]

Tip your hat and carry on

[JD848]

Respect the dead and keep on walking .

[Ken07AOVette]

Is it on your land? Does it affect your life somehow? If no to 1 or both it's noyb.

[ETOWNCANUCK]

Pour one out.

[Parker Hale]

Possibly someones pet? I buried the ashes of my dog under a tree overlooking one of our favourite lakes to camp at in BC. Hung her collar on the tree, six years later it is still there marking her final resting place.
I highly doubt it is from anything nefarious or illegal, so I will agree with everyone else in saying leave it be.

[catnthehat]

We hunt around several grave sites, mostly dogs.
We give them the same respect as if they were living people and pets.......
Cat

[drake]

Thanks guys. Is there any way to protect these sites from logging or other industrial disturbance. I’m talking crown land.

[zewks]

Originally Posted by drake

Thanks guys. Is there any way to protect these sites from logging or other industrial disturbance. I’m talking crown land.

https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-histo...ion.aspx#toc-5

[Sooner]

Originally Posted by hayseed

I would say a kind word, have a moment of silence and move on.
Nothing more.

What I have done when finding something like a grave or marker of a possible grave.

[Bigwoodsman]

Mid 90's on a lake North East of Cluff Lake SK, we came across a burial site on a bank of the lake we were on. We could find 4 graves, when we asked about it we were told it was a trapper and his family who had succumbed to disease in the late 1800's early 1900's. When found in the spring they were buried on site. We did not see any remains of a cabin or building just four rock cairns 2 larger 2 smaller.

BW

[Grizzly Adams]

Some are quite formal. Respect and reflect on the person buried there.



Grizz

[threeforthree]

Originally Posted by hayseed

i would say a kind word, have a moment of silence and move on.
Nothing more.

x1000

[Smoky buck]

It’s fairly common for my family to have their ashes spread and a marker hidden away in one of their favourite hunting/fishing locations when they die.

A few areas have been logged over the years and every time the area was flagged and was not disturbed by the loggers

As for the original question if I find a marker or grave in the bush I respect it as I hope others do when they find markers from my family

[Lornce]

Not all are graves. I pin a small fly on this one every time I visit and fish the stretch of stream that was a favorite of this unknow fisher. Often reflect on who he was and how he shared a passion. If it was a grave I would treat it with reverence and respect and something between me and my creator only.

[silver]

On the trail down to one of my favourite fishing holes is a pile of rocks. The pile is about 2 feet wide and 6 feet long, I am presuming a grave. The area is very sandy so some one had to look long and hard to find those rocks.

And every time I drive that trail, I look at the site and wonder and just say hello.

[SnipeHunter]

If it is a grave, likely it is not forgotten.

My family lived in the late 40s to early 50s in a community named Timberlost, Saskatchewan.

I'll let my cousin show you the community & cemetery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8R2kXFBVCM

In the early 90's that same trail was only just wide enough for a quad and required one. The local people have put a lot of effort in but at that time it was a few fallen-in shacks and abandoned vehicles. But it never fell off the cemetery registry or was without visitors.

You can read more about Timberlost here (follows Ladder Valley):

https://www.jkcc.com/districts5.html

Also - a plug for my cousin's amazing outfitting operation:

https://www.timberlostoutfitting.com/about-us/

[Grizzly Adams]

Here's one from the Willmore. Been a while, anyone know how it's faring? Surface burial going back about a hundred years.




Grizz

[mooseknuckle]

This "grave" on a remote island in northern sask. Go back every year and have a beer, buried a good bottle of tequila up there that we sip off every year.

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[Deer Hunter]

[MrDave]

I visit a couple every year. Elders from the Stoney people are buried at Medicine Lake. Unfortunately, that 2% of bad outdoors people have been riding quads all over the historical site. Doughnuts on top of the graves.
So we share a smoke with their spirits and wish them peace. For some reason there are now white people's memorials in the old village. More lost heritage.

[lilsundance]

I know of a grave yard. Last time I was up there I helped my ex father-in-law, RIP, take a late 80's or early 90's year old man into it. He placed a marker down for his young sister who died there at about 3 years old. If memory serves me correctly there was 3 or 4 graves there. It was marked off by a chain link fence. Prior to this old gentleman's arrival my ex father in law and one of his sons went in and cleared all the trees out from inside the graveyard. There was a post office there at one time, but the only remains of it was a large depression in the ground. I often wanted to take the metal detector up there and search around the area of the post office.

[Jigger]

Originally Posted by MrDave

I visit a couple every year. Elders from the Stoney people are buried at Medicine Lake. Unfortunately, that 2% of bad outdoors people have been riding quads all over the historical site. Doughnuts on top of the graves.
So we share a smoke with their spirits and wish them peace. For some reason there are now white people's memorials in the old village. More lost heritage.

Those dang white people huh

[Savage Bacon]

If you stumble upon some remains are you allowed to keep any? A bunch of euro mounts, one or two of which are human, on your wall. Would be quite the conversation piece.

Kidding aside, no disrespect intended to any of the deceased. Are you supposed to notify anyone if you find grave sites with actual remains? In case of missing persons or foul play?