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Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster – Raymond Burr, Cyrus Wesley Peck; Kelowna Municipal Cemetery, Kelowna – Bill Bennett, W. A. C. Bennett, Ray Powell; Mountain View Cemetery. 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.
St. James' Cemetery and Crematorium is a historic cemetery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the oldest cemetery in Toronto that is still in use, having opened in 1844. [ 1 ] It was originally the burial ground for the Cathedral Church of St. James , but it later became non-denominational .
The Old Burying Ground (also known as St. Paul's Church Cemetery) is a historic cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is located at the intersection of Barrington Street and Spring Garden Road in Downtown Halifax.
St. Peter's Cemetery, later St. Mary's Cemetery, is the oldest Catholic cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, containing an estimated 3,000 graves dating from 1784 until 1843. It is located in Downtown Halifax at the corner of Spring Garden Road and Grafton Street under a parking lot beside the St. Mary's Basilica and owned by the Roman Catholic ...
Elia United Church Cemetery Elia. 1832–1957 United Church of Canada Cemetery now parking lot but church remains on site. 20 head stones relocated to northside of church lot. Emmanuel United Church Cemetery Malvern
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 in St. Mark's churchyard is the oldest operational cemetery in Ontario. The land was likely used as burial ground by local Indigenous populations prior to colonization as well. The earliest stone in the cemetery is that of Elizabeth Kerr, daughter of Sir William Johnson, 1st Bt, and Molly Brant, dated 1794. [1]
Hamilton Cemetery on York Boulevard in Hamilton, Ontario, is the oldest public burial ground in the city. It is located on Burlington Heights , a high sand and gravel isthmus that separates Hamilton's harbor on the east from Cootes Paradise on the west.