NOTRE DAME DES NEIGES CEMETERY

Founded in 1854, 'Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges' is a 343-acre (1.39 km²) cemetery located in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, 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), politician, publisher

★ Robert Bourassa (1933-1996), Premier of Quebec

★ Dino Bravo (1948-1993), WWF wrestler

★ Sir George-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

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External links

See also

★ List of famous cemeteries

★ Mount Royal Park

External links

★ official website