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  Starting the first week of November the Lakefield Cemetery Staff will be placing poppies and Canadian flags at the graves of veterans in our cemetery. In addition to the poppies and Canadian flags at some of our veteran’s graves you will also see a laminated...

  The cemetery office remains open to serve the public. We are currently meeting clients outside of the office to maintain physical distancing and conducting as much paperwork and payments electronically as possible. We are available for pre-need and at-need sales of...

The Lakefield Cemetery will be hosting our 1st Annual Memorial Tree Lighting on December 11th, 2019 at 7:00pm in our new Gazebo on the cemetery grounds. For the Tree Lighting Ceremony we will have a Celebrant on hand to give a non-denominational reflection which will...

Annually on the third Sunday in June at the Lakefield Cemetery we celebrate Decoration Day. Decoration Day is a time honoured tradition where families visit the cemetery to pay respects to their loved ones by tidying up gravesites, cleaning cemetery memorials and...

We have all heard the term “Fog of Grief”, that hazy, out of focus feeling, felt when we have experienced loss in our life. After the loss of a loved one we are confronted with the task of making many time sensitive decisions that are accompanied by what seems like a...

Cemeteries are more than just places for the dead. Today cemeteries are some of the last remaining protected green spaces open to the public. This means that cemeteries are now being visited not only by living descendants of the deceased but by those wishing to...