Mount Royal Cemetery
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Opened in 1852, Mount Royal Cemetery is a 165-acre (668 000 m²) terraced cemetery on the north slope of Mount Royal in 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
- 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 [1].
