- Type
- Mortuary Site, Cemetery or Enclosure
- Designated
- 1973
Gray Burial Site
About Gray Burial Site
In Swift Current, Gray Burial Site is the National Historic Site.
Gray Burial Site National Historic Site of Canada is located on a farm north-west of the town of Swift Current, Saskatchewan. At the site numerous ancient human burials are concentrated in a small area on a hillside, the slope of which gradually becomes a ravine south of the site. The area surrounding the Gray Burial Site comprises moderately rolling hills composed of Aeolian sand covered with short grass vegetation. Official recognition refers to the site at the time of designation.
From the Canadian Register of Historic Places, Gray Burial Site National Historic Site of Canada · Open Government Licence – Canada · quoted as the register has it
National Historic Sites are places the Minister of Environment designates, on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board, for their national significance.
Questions about Gray Burial Site
What is Gray Burial Site?
Canada named Gray Burial Site a National Historic Site in 1973.
Is Gray Burial Site protected?
National Historic Site status commemorates; legal protection, where there is any, comes from the province or municipality, or from federal ownership.
Can you visit Gray Burial Site?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract).
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).