TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH, BEARBROOK

8785 Russell Rd., Bearbrook If you’re visiting Dale’s Cemetery, a 15-minute drive south along Dunning Road will take you to this 113-year-old stone church and adjacent cemetery. The church’s thrusting roofline and arched windows suggest heavenly aspirations while the four-square bell tower bespeaks quiet dignity. Inside, it’s hushed and reassuring, with 22 pews and white plaster walls. In the cemetery, graves tell the too-familiar tale of common infant deaths before the advent of modern medicine while no-longer-fashionable first names — Eliza, Edwin, Gertrude — are found on the older tombstones.

Hours: All cemeteries always open. Sunday services at Trinity Anglican: 8:30 a.m.

What else is there to do?: Bearbrook Game Meat on Dunning Road sells elk, buffalo and other products. Forced Road, just west on Russell Road, has two other graveyards. Most intriguing, though, is Grant Cemetery, 10 kilometres southeast of Bearbrook (Russell Road to Saumure Road; left on Indian Creek Road; right on Grant Road). This small cemetery in the Larose Forest was part of Grant, a once-thriving village of which only some foundations remain. On a late summer’s day, the cemetery was silent except for the wind in the pines and a few crickets.