Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont

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The Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont (Belmont Cemetery) is located at 2176 avenue Chapdelaine in Quebec City in the province of Quebec, Canada. The cemetery was built between 1857 and 1859.

Notables interred here include:

• Georges-Élie Amyot (1856-1930) politician and businessman.
• Valmore Bienvenue (1894-1952) American-born jurist, politician
• Arthur Buies (1840-1901), journalist, scholar
• René-Édouard Caron (1800-1876),
• Eugène Chinic (1818-1889) entrepreneur, bank founder, statesman
• Julien Chouinard (1929-1987), lawyer, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
• Antoine Dessane (1826-1873), France-born composer
• Edmund James Flynn (1847-1927), Premier of Quebec
• Ernest Gagnon (1834-1915), organist, historian, composer
• Jean Lesage (1912-1980), lawyer, Premier of Québec
• Félix-Gabriel Marchand (1832-1900), Premier of Québec
• Georges Parent (1879-1942), lawyer, statesman
• Yves Pratte (1925-1988), lawyer, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
• Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (1867-1952) lawyer, Premier of Québec
• Ulric-Joseph Tessier ((1817-1892), statesman
• Robert Taschereau (1896-1970), lawyer, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
• Joseph Vézina (1849-1924), orchestra conductor, composer

See also: List of famous cemeteries