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.
- 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 CE; though the cemetery was est. 1605.
- Nictaux Community Centre Cemetery, Nictaux, Nova Scotia, The oldest cemetery in Nictaux, with soldiers from the Siege of Quebec
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
- Fairview Cemetery, Niagara Falls
- Hamilton Cemetery, in Hamilton. The traditional burial site of the mayors of Hamilton.
- Mount Hope Catholic Cemetery in Toronto. The burial site for Margaret Anglin, Morley Callaghan, and King Clancy.
- Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto. Those interred there include Timothy Eaton, Frederick Banting, Glenn Gould, William Lyon Mackenzie King.
- Necropolis Cemetery, in Toronto. (Toronto Necropolis) – Ned Hanlan, William Lyon Mackenzie, George A. Romero
- Notre Dame Cemetery, Ottawa. 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
- Saint Volodymyr's Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, Oakville – Gregory Hines
- York Cemetery, in Toronto. The burial site of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, and her husband Captain Kolikovsky, and Tim Horton.
- List of cemeteries in York Region
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. Politicians Louis-Alexandre Taschereau and Jean Lesage.
- Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery, Montreal. Maurice Richard, George-Étienne Cartier, Doug Harvey, Pierre Laporte.
- Mount Hermon Cemetery, (formerly Sillery) Sillery Heritage Site, Quebec City. There are more than 70,000 interments, including some who perished on the Empress of Ireland. Also: Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, Frank Carrel, Joseph Morrin, Bartholomew Gugy, and William Wood. Mount Hermon Cemetery National Historic Site of Canada. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
Saskatchewan
- Estevan City Cemetery, Estevan
- Hillcrest Cemetery, Weyburn
- Moose Jaw City Cemetery, Moose Jaw
- Nutana Pioneer Cemetery, Saskatoon
- Prince Albert Memorial Gardens, Prince Albert
- Rainton Cemetery, Weyburn
- Regina Memorial Gardens, Regina
- Riverside Memorial Park Cemetery, Regina
- Rosedale Cemetery, Moose Jaw
- South Hill Cemetery, Prince Albert
- Stoughton Cemetery, Stoughton
- Woodlawn Cemetery, Saskatoon
- Yorkton City Cemetery, Yorkton
- Alingly Cemetery ~ Spruce Home, Saskatchewan
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