Moyie is a charming little town in the East Kootenays of British Columbia. Tied to mining for its first few decades – the St Eugene was a huge producer of lead and zinc, silver and gold – today it’s a sleepy little community with a retirement vibe, split by a busy highway. It’s home to a picturesque little church and an old time fire hall along with rows of rustic houses perched on steep slopes leading down to Moyie Lake. It’s a most quaint place with a population of about 450. Really? It looks less.
A click or two south of town is what we’ve come to document. There, beside the highway, a most peaceful setting if not for the noise from passing vehicles, is the Moyie Cemetery, with some eighty or so souls interred here. Look at those little white picket fences scattered there among the trees marking many of the plots. It’s quite beautiful.
Moyie dates from the 1890s with the cemetery land set aside soon after. There was one burial in 1898, the first year they took place, with a couple more, give or take being added most successive years. The year 1906 was the busiest with nine people being interred here. By the late 1920s, with the mine petering out, the town’s population shrunk and with that the frequency of burials trailed off. Many years there were none.
From: https://www.bigdoer.com/35639/exploring-history/the-little-cemetery-moyie-bc/
