Canadian Headstones

Cliff Seibel Canadian Headstones is a project to capture digital images and the complete transcription of cemetery stones.

Jim McKane began his genealogical quest in the early 1970s, when his father convinced him to become the custodian of the pedigree for his Lyons Clan Reunion in Chinguacousy Township, Peel County, Ontario.

[1] Realizing the value of the information to genealogists and family historians, he set out to research the possibility of creating an archive for Canadian headstones.

The site also uses a soundex system to allow searches for sound-alike names, to account for spelling variations, typos in entries or degraded quality of older headstones.

[9] The site also documented Halifax Memorial at Nova Scotia's Point Pleasant Park, devoted to the Canadian sailors who died during World Wars I and II, with close-up photos of all the panels with the names of the soldiers.