List of cemeteries in Canada

This is a list of cemeteries in Canada, posted by province or territory.

Alberta

Holy Cross Cemetery, Edmonton. Burial site for Edmonton Oilers founder William "Wild Bill" Hunter, and Canadian Football League players Johnny Bright and Rollie Miles.
Temple Hill (Warner County, Alberta), cemetery owned by the town of Raymond

British Columbia

Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Burnaby)
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.
Ocean View Funeral Home and Burial Park. The oldest and most premium private cemetery Metro Vancouver.(Burnaby)
Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria. Final resting place of Sir James Douglas, Emily Carr, Billy Barker and Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie, the "Hanging Judge".

Manitoba

St. Boniface Cathedral Cemetery, Winnipeg. Burial site of Louis Riel. Oldest graveyard in Western Canada.

New Brunswick

Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John. Final resting place of several early Canadian statesmen including Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley.

Northwest Territories

Back Bay Cemetery

Nova Scotia

Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax. Burial site for Joseph Howe, Robert Stanfield, Abraham Gesner, amongst others.
Fairview Cemetery, Halifax. Many victims of the RMS Titanic sinking.
Holy Cross Cemetery, Halifax. Burial site for Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, Prime Minister of Canada
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Halifax. Nineteen victims of the sinking of RMS Titanic are buried here.
Old Burying Ground, Halifax
Garrison Cemetery, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, The oldest English tomb stone in all of Canada 1720 C.E. ; though the cemetery was est. 1605.

Ontario

Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa - Robert Borden, Tommy Douglas, Sandford Fleming, Andrew McNaughton
Cataraqui Cemetery, Kingston. Alexander Campbell, John A. Macdonald
Chatham-Kent, nearby, the Hutberg, God's Acre burial ground of the Christian Munsee New Fairfield/Moraviantown
Hamilton Cemetery, in Hamilton. The traditional burial site of the mayors of Hamilton.
Hope Cemetery, Ottawa.
Knox United Church Cemetery in Toronto. Interments here include Dr. Wilson A. Head
Langford Cemetery, Bracebridge.
Mount Hope Catholic Cemetery in Toronto. The burial site for Margaret Anglin, Morley Callaghan, and King Clancy, amongst others.
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto. Those interred here include Timothy Eaton, Frederick Banting, Glenn Gould, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and others.
Necropolis Cemetery, in Toronto. (Toronto Necropolis) - Ned Hanlan, William Lyon Mackenzie, George A. Romero
Notre Dame Cemetery, Ottawa. Interments here include Yousuf Karsh, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Aurèle Joliat.
Pardes Shalom Cemetery, Vaughan - Harvey Atkin, Corey Haim, Al Waxman
Park Lawn Cemetery, Toronto - Rob Ford, Jeff Healey, Lou Marsh, Conn Smythe
York Cemetery, in Toronto. The burial site of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, and her husband Captain Kolikovsky, Tim Horton and others.

Quebec

Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal - John Abbott, Frank Calder, John Molson, Howie Morenz, Mordecai Richler
National Field of Honour, Pointe-Claire, an official veteran's cemetery.
Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont, (Formerly Sainte-Foy) Quebec City. Interred here are politicians Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Jean Lesage and others.
Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery, Montreal. Some of the notables buried here include Maurice Richard, George-Étienne Cartier, Doug Harvey, Pierre Laporte.

Other links

Find a grave in Canada

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.