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The oldest cemetery in the city of Vancouver, it is the resting place of 145,000 people, including numerous notable figures in the city's history. Ocean View Burial Park, Burnaby – Tommy Burns , Michael Cuccione , Miles Mander , Charles Merritt , Roy Conacher , Thomas Dufferin Pattullo
Today the cemetery is a park with a memorial cairn. Sharon Cemetery Etobicoke. 1845–1955 Methodist The Sharon United Church building was demolished in 1967, but the cemetery beside it remains. St. Augustine's Seminary Cemetery Cliffside
This is a list of cemeteries in the York Region of Ontario, Canada.. Active cemeteries includes religion affiliated or non-denominational. Abandoned cemeteries are managed by the municipalities they are located in. In some cases where graves are no longer found or missing markers
Canadian Headstones is a project to capture digital images and the complete transcription of cemetery stones. It is a web-based Canadian non-profit corporation run completely by volunteers. It is a web-based Canadian non-profit corporation run completely by volunteers.
On May 29, 1855, thirty-five-year-old Jane Gilroy McCready, wife of Thomas McCready, then a Montreal municipal councillor, was the first person to be buried in the new cemetery. [7] Notre Dame des Neiges is the largest cemetery in Canada with more than 55 kilometres of lanes and one million people interred. [8]
The cemetery once fronted on Yonge Street, but in 1966, eighteen and a half acres were sold to the city of North York (now part of Toronto). The cemetery has continued to develop, with the addition of a chapel and reception centre, and also the newly built "garden of remembrance". [citation needed]
This monument was the last grave marker in the cemetery. In 1938, the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts presented and dedicated a granite monument to Erasmus James Philipps, who is the earliest known settler of Nova Scotia (c. 1721) to be buried in the cemetery. He was also the founder of Freemasonry in present-day Canada (1737). [8]
The Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont (French pronunciation: [simtjɛʁ nɔtʁə dam də bɛlmɔ̃]; English: Belmont Cemetery) is a historic garden cemetery located in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Roman Catholic cemetery was built between 1857 and 1859. [ 1 ]