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Line 1: {{Short description\|Cemetery ~~on Mount Royal, borough of Outremont,~~in Montreal, Quebec, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English\|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox cemetery \| name = Mount Royal Cemetery \| image = Cimetière Mont-Royal - Portail d'entrée 06.jpg \| imagesize = \| native_name = Cimetière Mont-Royal \| caption = The cemetery's gate in November 2016 \| map_type = Quebec Line 10 ⟶ 12: \| established = 1852 \| country = Canada \| location = [[Outremont ~~(borough)\|Outremont]]~~, [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]] \| coordinates = {{coord\|45.508\|-73.599\|display=inline,title}} \| type = [[Non-denominational]]<br />(originally [[Protestant]]) \| style = \| owner = The Mount Royal Cemetery Company<ref>[https://www.mountroyalcem.com/index.php/en/about-us/trustees.html Governance], Mount Royal Cemetery.</ref> ~~\| owner =~~ \| size = {{Convert\|165\|acre}} \| graves = 200,000 \| website = {{Official website\|https://www.mountroyalcem.com/index.php/en/~~our-funeral-homes/mount-royal-funeral-complex.html~~}} \| findagraveid = 639448 \| embedded = {{designation list\|embed=yes\|designation1=Canada\|designation1_date=1998}} }} ~~Opened in 1852,~~ '''Mount Royal Cemetery''' ([[French language\|French]]: '''Cimetière Mont-Royal''') is a {{convert\|165\|acre\|ha\|adj=on}} terraced cemetery on the north slope of [[Mount Royal]] in the borough of [[Outremont, Quebec\|Outremont]] in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada. [[It opened in 1852. Temple Emanu-El Cemetery]], a [[Reform Judaism]] burial ground, is within the Mount Royal grounds. The burial ground shares the mountain with the much larger adjacent [[Roman Catholic]] cemetery, [[Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery]], and the [[Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery]], an [[Ashkenazi Jewish]] cemetery. Mount Royal Cemetery is bordered on the southeast by [[Mount Royal Park]], on the west by Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery, and on the north by Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery. Although the cemetery is [[non-denominational]] today, it continues to be governed by its original charter, with a board of trustees representing the founding [[Protestant]] denominations. The cemetery is a private [[non-profit organization]]. Line 33 ⟶ 35: The first [[crematory]] in Canada was built by [[Andrew Taylor (Architect)\|Sir Andrew Taylor]] in 1901 on the eastern side of the Mount Royal Cemetery property with funds donated by Sir [[William Christopher Macdonald]], a well-known tobacco [[tycoon]] and great [[philanthropist]]. This building is the oldest of its kind in the country and it remained the only crematorium in [[Quebec]] until 1975. The first cremation took place on April 18, 1902. Built with Montreal limestone, the original building had a [[chapel]], a room for the cremation chambers, a large winter storage vault and a conservatory filled with exotic plants. In the 1950s, for maintenance reasons, the conservatory was demolished but the original chapel, on the left of the building, is still intact with a ~~beautiful hand made~~handmade mosaic floor.<ref name="mountroyalcem.com"/> ===War Graves section=== Line 41 ⟶ 43: ==Notable interments==<!-- new links in alphabetical order please --> {{~~See~~Category ~~also~~see ~~category~~also\|Burials at Mount Royal Cemetery}} A few of the prominent people interred in the cemetery are: [[File:Cimetière Mont-Royal - Monument en l'honneur de John Joseph Caldwell Abbott 03.jpg\|thumb\|Gravestone for [[John Abbott]], the third [[Prime Minister of Canada]].]] * [[John Joseph Caldwell Abbott\|Sir John Abbott]] (1821–1893), prime minister of Canada<ref>{{cite web \|title=A historical stroll through Canada's prime ministerial grave sites \|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/a-historical-stroll-through-canadas-prime-ministerial-grave-sites/article22500109/ \|website=theglobeandmail.com \|access-date=27 July 2020}}</ref> * [[Hugh Allan\|Sir Hugh Allan]] (1810–1882), financier and shipping magnate * [[H. Montagu Allan\|Sir Montagu Allan]] (1860–1951), businessman, [[Hockey Hall of Fame]] member * [[Richard Bladworth Angus]] (1831–1922), banker * [[Henry Birks]] (1840–1928), businessman * [[William Thomas Benson]] (1824–1885), businessman, politician * [[Frank Calder]] (1877–1943), [[National Hockey League]] executive * [[William Cecil Christmas]] (1879–1941), businessman, [[Canada's Sports Hall of Fame]] * [[William Clark-Kennedy]] (1879–1961), Scots-born [[Victoria Cross]] recipient * [[Sir Arthur Currie]] (1875–1933), First World War military commander, educator * [[Sir Mortimer Barnett Davis]] (1866–1928), businessman and philanthropist * [[W.Norman ~~R. Granger~~Dawe]] (~~William Rowen Granger; 1873–1925~~1898–1948), Canadian sports ~~administrator~~executive<ref>{{cite news\|title=~~Final~~R. ~~Tribute~~Norman ToDawe ~~Late W. R.~~Sportsman, ~~Granger~~Dead\|date=~~April~~January 275, ~~1925~~1948\|newspaper=The Gazette\|location=Montreal, Quebec\|page=63\|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/~~68634196~~77337880/~~w-r-granger~~dawe-~~1925~~1948/}}{{free access}}</ref>▼ * [[J. William Dawson]] (1820–1899), scientist, educator * [[George Mercer Dawson]] (1849–1901), scientist Line 66 ⟶ 69: * [[Henry Fry (merchant)\|Henry Fry]] (1826–1896), ship-broker, ship owner and commission merchant based in Quebec City [[File:Cimetière Mont-Royal - Monument en l'honneur d'Alexander Tilloch Galt 01.jpg\|thumb\|Gravestone of [[Alexander Tilloch Galt]], a Canadian politician, and one of the [[Fathers of Confederation]].]] * [[Sir Alexander Galt]] (1817–1893), businessman, statesman, [[Father Ofof Confederation]] * [[Horatio Gates (businessman)\|Horatio Gates]] (1777–1834), businessman, statesman * [[Samuel Gerrard]] (1767–1857), businessman * [[Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan]] (1848–1938), newspaper publisher ▲* [[W. R. Granger]] (William Rowen Granger; 1873–1925), Canadian sports administrator<ref>{{cite news\|title=Final Tribute To Late W. R. Granger\|date=April 27, 1925\|newspaper=The Gazette\|location=Montreal, Quebec\|page=6\|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68634196/w-r-granger-1925/}}{{free access}}</ref> * [[Frank Greenleaf]] (1877–1953), Canadian sports administrator<ref>{{cite news\|title=Former CAHA Head F. Greenleaf Dies\|date=January 2, 1953\|newspaper=The Gazette\|location=Montreal, Quebec\|page=14\|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67588289/frank-greenleaf-1953/}}{{free access}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|title=Greenleaf\|date=January 3, 1953\|newspaper=The Gazette\|location=Montreal, Quebec\|page=11\|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67588722/frank-greenleaf-1953/}}{{free access}}</ref> * [[Joseph Guibord]], (1809–1869), printer, temporarily interred here six years pending [[Guibord case\|litigation]] about his disputed burial in [[Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery]] in 1875 Line 77 ⟶ 79: * [[Herbert Samuel Holt\|Sir Herbert Holt]] (1856–1941), financier * [[C. D. Howe]] (1886–1960), American-born politician and engineer [[Margaret Kempe Howell]] (1806–1867), mother of [[Varina Davis]] and mother-in-law of [[Jefferson Davis]] [[File:Leonowens 001.jpg\|thumb\|Gravestone for [[Anna Leonowens]], founder of the [[Nova Scotia College of Art and Design]].]] [[Anna Leonowens]] (1834–1915), governess (Anna of ''[[Anna and the King of Siam (novel)\|Anna and the King of Siam]]''), founder of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design * [[Hannah Lyman]] (~~1916~~1816-1871), educator, biographer * [[Robert Mackay (businessman)\|Robert Mackay]] (1840–1916), businessman, statesman * [[William Christoper Macdonald\|Sir William C. Macdonald]] (1831–1917), tobacco manufacturer, philanthropist Line 88 ⟶ 91: * [[Peter McGill]] (1789–1860), businessman, municipal politician * [[Duncan McIntyre (businessman)\|Duncan McIntyre]] (1834–1894), businessman * [[Earle McLaughlin]], (1915-1991) cresident & chairman, [[Royal Bank of Canada]] * [[Charles Meredith (banker)\|Charles Meredith]] (1854–1928), president of the [[Montreal Stock Exchange]] * [[Frederick Edmund Meredith]] (1862–1941), chancellor of Bishop's University * Sir [[Vincent Meredith]] (1850–1929), 1st Baronet of Montreal, president of the [[Bank of Montreal]] * [[William Campbell James Meredith]] (1904–1960), Dean of Law, McGill University * [[Shadrach Minkins]] (c. 1815–1875), American-born fugitive slave rescued from federal custody in Boston in 1851 * [[Hartland Molson]] (1907–2002), brewing magnate, World War II fighter pilot, statesman * [[John Molson]] (1763–1836), brewing tycoon * Colonel W. J. B. MacLeod Moore (born Kildare (Ireland), January 14, 1810, died Prescott (Ontario), September 10, 1890), founder of Masonic Knights Templar in Canada and Societas Roscruciana in Anglia (Canada) * [[Howie Morenz]] (1902–1937), Hall of Fame ice hockey player * [[Henry Morgan (merchant)\|Henry Morgan]] (1819–1893), opened first department store in Canada * [[Frederick Cleveland Morgan]] (1881–1962), businessman, heir, philanthropist, and art collector * [[Arthur Deane Nesbitt]] (1910–1978), decorated soldier of World War II, stockbroker * [[Arthur James Nesbitt\|Arthur J. Nesbitt]] (1880–1954), cofounder of [[Nesbitt, Thomson and Company\|Nesbitt Thomson & Co.]] and [[Power Corporation of Canada]] Line 106 ⟶ 112: * [[Frank L. Packard]] (1877–1942), mystery writer * [[John Redpath]] (1796–1869), contractor, built the first sugar refinery in Canada * [[Elsie Reford]] (1872-1967), philanthropist and creator of the [[Jardins de Métis\|Jardins de Métis (Reford Gardens)]] in Grand-Métis * [[Robert Wilson Reford]] (1867–1951), shipping executive, artist, photographer * [[Mordecai Richler]] (1931–2001), author Line 118 ⟶ 125: * [[John Torrance]] (1786–1870), merchant, shipper * [[Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead]] (1895–1954), delivered the fatal sucker punch to magician [[Harry Houdini]] * [[Ernest Henry Wilson]] (1876–1930), notable British plant collector and explorer * [[Thomas Workman (Canadian politician)\|Thomas Workman]] (1813–1889), businessman, politician, philanthropist * [[William Workman (Canadian politician)\|William Workman]] (1807–1878), businessman and municipal politician Line 131 ⟶ 139: ==External links== {{Commons category\|Mont Royal Cemetery}} * ~~{{Official website\|~~[https://www.mountroyalcem.com/index.php/en/~~our-funeral-homes/mount-royal-funeral-complex.html}}~~ Official website] * [http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/scripts/large.php?accessnumber=I-21071.1&Lang=1&imageID=141226 Entrance to Mount Royal Cemetery in 1866] Line 146 ⟶ 154: [[Category:National Historic Sites in Quebec]] [[Category:Outremont, Quebec]] [[Category:Cemeteries established in the 1850s]]