At one point the Catholic Church in Rawdon decided that any tombstones not being financed would be bulldozed and the spaces be re-asigned to paying families. These original stones were in memory of early settlers and founders of the Catholic Church in Rawdon. They had worked very hard and sacrificed much to have a church established in Rawdon. Descendants of the families had long moved away and there was no one left to subsidise these early plots.

When a member of the church saw a bulldozer in the graveyard pushing these stones over the embankment behind the old graveyard he was aghast. He called another church member with strong Irish roots to discuss the problem. The two men approached Earle Moore of Canadiana Village who offered to have the stones placed beside the church replica in his Village.

A mechanical loader and a flatbed truck and with the help of two other young men, they hauled the unbroken stones up the embankment and delivered them to Canadiana Village. Unfortunately, most of the stones were beyond repair and had to be left on the bank.