PAGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – John Canada Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, John Canada graveyard:
                  1936 Oct. 23
                  Research made by Vivian Black

Cemetery Location:  Near Route #660, a short distance after it crosses the 
                    Shenandoah River on the west side, and about 2 miles west of 
                    Route #12.
                    Page County, Virginia


DATE:

1743.

OWNERS:

The farm is now owned by Daniel Kibler (1936), and occupied by Philip Campbell.  
It was originally the John Bumgardner, the pioneer, farm, or more widely known 
as the Christian or Christly Bumgardner farm.

DESCRIPTION:

It is a private graveyard in fair condition.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

I have not been able to find how or when John  Canada came to this valley.  Some 
say he was with a party of explorers that came up the Shenandoah River from 
Front Royal, and after their return he came back.  He was supposed to be the 
first white man to set foot on the highest peak in the Massanutten mountains, 
and this peak still bears his name, only the spelling has been changed from 
Canada to Kennedy.  I do not know the reason for this, but I do think, as it is 
named for him, it should be spelled as he spelled his name.  He lived with John 
Bumgardner and died at his home.  He would go up in the Massanutten mountains 
and work in a silver mine but never told anyone where it was situated.  He was a 
bachelor.


April 3, 2005 Hear Lyes the
Body of John Canada
Dyed Ye Year
of our Lord
1743


This is a soapstone and hand-carved.  There are two other stones with no 
inscription, and I could find no information about them.




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Miss Katherine Delany Bumgardner, Luray, Va.

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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