Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Cemetery tours bring history lessons to life

Brian Bell, president of Heritage Moose Jaw, explains the
story of Charles Wilkes on a Heritage Cemetery Tour at
the Moose Jaw Cemetery on Saturday. Wilkes drowned on
the S.S. Empress of Ireland on May 29, 1914.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy

Ontario-born Charles Vrooman moved to Saskatchewan and put up a homestead south of Tuxford.

Vrooman, who died on Feb. 15, 1939, is buried in the Moose Jaw cemetery. He lived to be 93.

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