Opened in 1852 , is a 165-acre (668 000 m²) terraced cemetery on the north slope of Mount Royal in the borough of Outremont , Montreal, Quebec , Canada . The burial ground shares the mountain with the much larger and predominantly French-Canadian Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges .
Mount Royal Cemetery contains more than 162,000 residents and is the final resting place for a number of notable Canadians. It includes a veterans section with several soldiers who were awarded the British Empire's highest military honour, the Victoria Cross . In 1901 the Mount Royal Cemetery Company established the first crematorium in Canada.
Historically used by members of the English-speaking community and those of Protestant faiths, the cemetery is now non-sectarian and open to all. A few of the prominent people interred in the cemetery are:
- Sir John Abbott (1821-1893), Prime Minister of Canada
- Hugh Allan (1810-1882), financier and shipping magnate
- H. Montagu Allan (1860-1951), businessman, Hockey Hall of Fame member
- Richard Bladworth Angus (1831-1922), banker
- Robert Mitchell Ballantyne (1859-1929), businessman
- William Thomas Benson (1824-1885), businessman, politician
- Frank Calder (1877-1943), National Hockey League executive
- George Caverhill (1858-1937), businessman
- Sir Arthur Currie (1875-1933), First World War military commander, educator
- J. William Dawson (1820-1899), scientist, educator
- George Mercer Dawson (1849-1901), scientist
- Joseph Doutre (1825-1886), lawyer, writer, major adversary of Quebec Catholicism
- William Dow (1800-1868), brewer and businessman
- George Alexander Drummond (1829-1910), entrepreneur
- Edith Maude Eaton (1865-1914), author, a.k.a. "Sui Sin Far"
- Charles Edward Frosst (1867-1948), pharmaceuticals manufacturer
- Sir Alexander Galt (1817-1893), businessman, statesman
- Horatio Gates (1777-1834), businessman, statesman
- Andrew Frederick Gault (1833-1903), merchant, industrialist, and philanthropist
- Samuel Gerrard (1767-1857), businessman
- Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan (1848-1938), newspaper publisher
- Charles Melville Hays (1856-1912), Grand Trunk Railway executive and '' Titanic '' victim
- Charles Heavysege (1816-1876), author, poet
- Alexander Henderson (1831-1913), merchant and photographer
- Herbert Samuel Holt (1856-1941), financier
- Charles Rudolph Hosmer (1851-1927), miller
- C. D. Howe (1886-1960), American-born politician and engineer
- Anna Leonowens (1834-1915), Governess at the Court of Siam, founder of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
- William C. Macdonald (1831-1917), tobacco manufacturer, philanthropist
- Dugald Lorn MacDougall (1811-1885), stockbroker, investor
- Allan McCarthy (1957-1995), musician, Men Without Hats
- John Wilson McConnell (1877-1963), publisher, philanthropist
- David Ross McCord (1844-1930), lawyer, philanthropic founder of the McCord Museum
- William King McCord (1803-1858), jurist, philanthropist
- Peter McGill (1789-1860), businessman, municipal politician
- Duncan McIntyre (1834-1894), businessman
- Hugh Mackay (1832-1890), businessman
- Robert Mackay (1840-1916), businessman, statesman
- Robert Meighen (1837-1911), businessman
- Shadrach Minkins (1815?-1875), American-born fugitive slave rescued from federal custody in Boston in 1851.
- Hartland Molson (1907-2002), brewing magnate, WW II fighter pilot, statesman
- John Molson (1763-1836), brewing tycoon
- Howie Morenz (1902-1937), Hall of Fame ice hockey player
- Henry Morgan (1819-1893), opened first department store in Canada
- Arthur Deane Nesbitt (1910-1978), decorated soldier of WWII, stockbroker
- Arthur J. Nesbitt (1880-1954), cofounder of Nesbitt Thomson & Co. and Power Corporation Of Canada
- J. Aird Nesbitt (1907-1985), owner/operator of Ogilvy's department store in Montreal
- Alexander Walker Ogilvie (1829-1902), miller, statesman
- William Watson Ogilvie (1835-1900) miller
- Frank L. Packard (1877-1942), mystery writer
- John Redpath (1796-1869), contractor, built the first sugar refinery in Canada
- Robert Reford (1831-1913), entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Robert Wilson Reford (1867-1951), shipping executive, artist, photographer
- Mordecai Richler (1931-2001), author
- James Ross (1848-1913), railway engineer, businessman, philanthropist
- Philip Simpson Ross (1827-1907), founder of the Order of Chartered Accountants of Quebec
- Anne Savage (1896-1971), painter and art teacher
- F. R. Scott (1899-1985), scholar
- Denis Stairs (1889-1980), Chairman, Montreal Engineering Co.
- George Washington Stephens (1832-1904), businessman, lawyer, politician, philanthropist
- Harrison Stephens (1801-1881), American-born merchant
- David Thompson (1770-1857), surveyor and explorer
- David Torrance (1805-1876), merchant, banker
- John Torrance (1786-1870), merchant, shipper
- Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead (Unknown-1954), the man who sucker punched Harry Houdini who died of the injury.
- William Watson (c.1795-1867), miller, businessman, politician
- Thomas Workman (1813-1889), businessman, politician, philanthropist
- William Workman (1807-1878), businessman and municipal politician
- John Young , (1811-1878), entrepreneur, statesman
- Walter P. Zeller (1890-1957), founder of Zellers .
Several small Jewish cemeteries are also located in or nearby Mount Royal Cemetery: Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery, Spanish and Portuguese-Shearith Israel and Temple Emanuel Cemetery {Link without Title} .
|
