Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery

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Front entrance, Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges

Founded in 1854, Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges is a 343-acre (1.39 km²) cemetery located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The entrance and the grounds run along a part of chemin Côte-des-Neiges and up the slopes of Mount Royal. The cemetery shares the mountain with the predominantly English-speaking and originally Protestant burial ground, the Mount Royal Cemetery.

Notre-Dame-des-Neiges is the largest cemetery in Canada. Its "La Pietà Mausoleum" contains a life-sized marble reproduction of Michelangelo's Pietà sculpture located in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.

The cemetery was originally open only to Roman Catholics; it is now open to any Christian, though it continues to be a Catholic institution and serve a primarily Catholic community. Primarily the internment grounds for French Canadians, as they have almost exclusively been members of the Roman Catholic faith, the cemetery is the final resting place for a number of former mayors of the city of Montreal plus other prominent persons including:

Jacques Augur (1901-1977), actor, comedian
Raoul Barré (1874-1932), cartoonist
Jean-Louis Beaudry (1809-1886), entrepreneur, politician
Maurice Beaupré (1907-1984), actor
Rolland Bédard (1913-1987), actor
Richard Blass (1946-1975), gangster, killer, mass murderer
Charlotte Boisjoli (1923-2001), writer, actress
Henri Bourassa (1868-1952), publisher
Robert Bourassa (1933-1996), Premier of Quebec
Dino Bravo (1948-1993), WWF wrestler
Sir Georges-Étienne Cartier (1814-1873), statesman
Thérèse Forget Casgrain (1896-1981), feminist, reformer and stateswoman
Lorne Chabot (1900-1946), NHL ice-hockey goalie
Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau (1840-1898), lawyer, publisher, politician
Ernest Cormier ( 1885-1980 ), architect
Alexandre-Maurice Delisle (1810-1880), businessman, statesman
Gonzalve Doutre (1842-1880), lawyer, scholar, president of the Institut Canadien
Jean Drapeau (1916-1999), flamboyant mayor of Montreal
Lewis Thomas Drummond (1813-1882), jurist, politician
Ludger Duvernay (1799-1852), founder of Quebec's Société St-Jean-Baptiste
Marcel Faribault (1908-1972), notary and legislative adviser
Gérald Fauteux (1900-1980), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Amédée-Emmanuel Forget (1847-1923), Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan
Louis-Joseph Forget (1853-1911), financier and president of the Montreal Stock Exchange.
Sir Rodolphe Forget (1861-1919), financier, statesman, president of the Montreal Stock Exchange.
Jean Gascon (1921-1988), stage and film actor/director
Conrad Gauthier (1886-1964), singer/songwriter
Sir Lomer Gouin, (1861-1929), Lieutenant-Governor and Premier of Quebec
Robert Gravel (1945-1996), actor
Joseph Guibord (1809-1869), patriote, buried through a court order in the Guibord case.
Doug Harvey (1924-1989), ice-hockey Hall of Fame defenceman
Camillien Houde (1889-1958), statesman
Harry Hyland (1889-1969), Hall of Fame ice-hockey player
Henri Julien (1852-1908), lithographer, painter, illustrator, caricaturist, reporter
Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine (1807-1864), jurist, politician
Alfred Laliberté (1878-1953), sculptor
Pierre Laporte (1921-1970), statesman assassinated by FLQ terrorists
René Lecavalier (1907-1999), sports commentator
Marc Lépine (1964-1989), mass murderer
J. Louis Lévesque (1911-1994) stockbroker, philanthropist, horse racing builder
Nick Auf der Maur (1942-1998), journalist, politician
Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825-1868), journalist, statesman
Honoré Mercier (1840-1894), statesman
Émile Nelligan (1879-1941), poet
Robert Nelson (1794-1873), medical practitioner, statesman
John Ostell (1813-1892), architect
Gédéon Ouimet (1823-1905), lawyer, politician, Premier of the Province of Quebec
Alice Poznanska-Parizeau (1930-1990), writer
Pierre Péladeau (1925-1997), businessman, media mogul
Maurice Richard (1921-2000), Hall of Fame ice-hockey player
Yvon Robert, (1914-1971), professional wrestler
Jean "Johnny" Rougeau (1929-1983), professional wrestler
Jeanne Sauvé (1922-1993), politician and Governor-General of Canada
Lord Thomas George Shaughnessy, (1853-1923), President of CPR
Mary Travers, "La Bolduc" (1894-1941), singer
Charles Wilson (1808-1877), businessman, mayor of Montreal
Marcellin Wilson (1859-1940), financier, philanthropist, statesman